Total investments

79

Average round size

35M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

3.16

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

36

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryPharmaceuticalsHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
79
Lead investments
22
Exits
36
Rounds per year
3.16
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (71)
  • Health Care (40)
  • Therapeutics (30)
  • Medical (27)
  • Pharmaceutical (25)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • France (5)
  • United Kingdom (12)
  • Switzerland (5)
  • Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
154M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.54
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Amolyt Pharma 06 Jan 2023 Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics Late Stage Venture 153M Rhone-Alpes, Écully, France
Imagen Biotech 19 Oct 2011 Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 40M United States, New York, New York
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