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Novo Ventures

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Total investments 79
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 3.16
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 36
Key employees 7

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Bagsvu00e6rd. The company was established in Europe in Denmark. Novo Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spectranetics, Alios BioPharma, Cianna Medical. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, Genetics. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Novo Ventures, startups are often financed by Novartis Venture Fund, Novo Holdings, TPG Biotech. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TPG Biotech, New Enterprise Associates, Versant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novo Holdings, SV Health Investors, TPG Biotech.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Novo Ventures performs on 16 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Amolyt Pharma

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$153M06 Jan 2023 Écully, Rhone-Alpes, France

Theraxyte

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$10M11 Jul 2022 Changping, Beijing, China

Amolyt Pharma

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$80M16 Sep 2021 Écully, Rhone-Alpes, France

Reneo Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$95M09 Dec 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Lava Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
$83M17 Sep 2020 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

NodThera

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$55M03 Jun 2020 Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom

Anokion

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Therapeutics
$40M11 Sep 2019 Vaud, Switzerland

Alizé Pharma

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$79M31 Jul 2019 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Galera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$70M19 Sep 2018 Pennsylvania, United States
News
Amolyt Pharma Raises $80M in Series B Financing

– Amolyt Pharma from Lyon develops therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and related diseases.
– The company closed an $80m Series B round.
– The round was co-led by Sectoral Asset Management and Andera Partners, with participation from ATEM Capital, LSP, Novo Holdings (Novo Ventures), Kurma Partners, Mass General Brigham Ventures, Innobio 2 managed by Bpifrance, Orbimed, Pontifax, Eurazeo, Sham Innovation Santé/Turenne Capital and Credit Agricole Creation.
– The company plans to use the proceeds from the financing to advance its pipeline of potential therapeutics for rare endocrine and related diseases, including clinical development of AZP-3601 for hypoparathyroidism, pre-clinical development of AZP-3813 for acromegaly and ongoing research related to AZP-3404, and to further expand its early-stage pipeline through both internal research and development activities and potential in-licensing opportunities.

Amolyt Pharma Raises $80M in Series B Financing

– Amolyt Pharma from Lyon develops therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and related diseases.
– The company closed an $80m Series B round.
– The round was co-led by Sectoral Asset Management and Andera Partners, with participation from ATEM Capital, LSP, Novo Holdings (Novo Ventures), Kurma Partners, Mass General Brigham Ventures, Innobio 2 managed by Bpifrance, Orbimed, Pontifax, Eurazeo, Sham Innovation Santé/Turenne Capital and Credit Agricole Creation.
– The company plans to use the proceeds from the financing to advance its pipeline of potential therapeutics for rare endocrine and related diseases, including clinical development of AZP-3601 for hypoparathyroidism, pre-clinical development of AZP-3813 for acromegaly and ongoing research related to AZP-3404, and to further expand its early-stage pipeline through both internal research and development activities and potential in-licensing opportunities.

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Total investments 79
Average round size 35M
Rounds per year 3.16
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 36
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Amolyt Pharma

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$153M06 Jan 2023 Écully, Rhone-Alpes, France

Theraxyte

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$10M11 Jul 2022 Changping, Beijing, China

Amolyt Pharma

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$80M16 Sep 2021 Écully, Rhone-Alpes, France

Reneo Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$95M09 Dec 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Lava Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
$83M17 Sep 2020 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

NodThera

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$55M03 Jun 2020 Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom

Anokion

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Therapeutics
$40M11 Sep 2019 Vaud, Switzerland

Alizé Pharma

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$79M31 Jul 2019 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Galera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$70M19 Sep 2018 Pennsylvania, United States
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