OrbiMed

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

674

Average round size

69M

Portfolio companies

406

Rounds per year

19.26

Lead investments

153

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

191

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

In 1989 was created OrbiMed, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

Besides them, we counted 15 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the OrbiMed, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Kearny Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Deerfield, Alta Partners, Topspin Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Versant Ventures, Venrock, OUP (Osage University Partners).

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Loxo Oncology, Receptos, Avanir Pharmaceuticals. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Clinical Trials. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from OrbiMed is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this OrbiMed works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Healthcare
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
674
Lead investments
153
Exits
191
Rounds per year
19.26
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (526)
  • Health Care (435)
  • Medical (205)
  • Pharmaceutical (196)
  • Therapeutics (168)
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Investments by region
  • United States (463)
  • China (66)
  • Canada (22)
  • United Kingdom (17)
  • Israel (45)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
15
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
22

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
145M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.41
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BlossomHill Therapeutics 02 Jan 2024 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 100M United States, California, San Diego
Stemirna 03 Jun 2021 Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical Late Stage Venture 185M Beijing, Dongcheng District, China

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