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Palo Alto Investors

Founders Will Edwards

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 0.94
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 15
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

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

Palo Alto Investors is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1989. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Palo Alto.

The current fund was established by Will Edwards. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Palo Alto Investors, startups are often financed by Vivo Capital, BioAdvance, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vivo Capital, Third Point Ventures, Technology Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Vivo Capital, Mobius Venture Capital.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Palo Alto Investors performs on 17 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2005. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Semiconductor, Biotechnology. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Deem, NewLeaf Symbiotics, SkyPilot Networks.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$27M06 May 2021 New York, New York, United States

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Sustainability
$17M15 Sep 2014 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

NeXeption

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$21M02 Jan 2014 Pennsylvania, United States

Fisker Automotive

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Mobile
Transportation
$65M09 Sep 2008 Torrance, California, United States

Fisker Automotive

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Mobile
Transportation
$20M14 Jan 2008 Torrance, California, United States

Revance Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$43M12 Dec 2007 California, United States

Fisker Automotive

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Mobile
Transportation
$5M11 Dec 2007 Torrance, California, United States

Ceptaris Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$14M26 Nov 2007 Pennsylvania, United States

Mercator MedSystems

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M15 May 2006 California, United States

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Total investments 33
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 0.94
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$27M06 May 2021 New York, New York, United States

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Sustainability
$17M15 Sep 2014 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

NeXeption

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$21M02 Jan 2014 Pennsylvania, United States

Fisker Automotive

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Mobile
Transportation
$65M09 Sep 2008 Torrance, California, United States

Fisker Automotive

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Mobile
Transportation
$20M14 Jan 2008 Torrance, California, United States

Revance Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$43M12 Dec 2007 California, United States

Fisker Automotive

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
Mobile
Transportation
$5M11 Dec 2007 Torrance, California, United States

Ceptaris Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$14M26 Nov 2007 Pennsylvania, United States

Mercator MedSystems

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M15 May 2006 California, United States
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