Pappas Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Durham, United States

Total investments

31

Average round size

52M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

1.03

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoverySoftwareHealth CareGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeutics

Summary

Pappas Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The main department of described VC is located in the Durham. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Pappas Capital, startups are often financed by Fonds de solidaritu00e9 FTQ, Pappas Ventures, Go Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Tekla Capital Management, RiverVest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock Healthcare Partners, Tekla Capital Management, RTW Investments LLC.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Genetics, Health Care. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CuraSen Therapeutics, 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals.

Comparing to the other companies, this Pappas Capital performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesMedtech
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 200000000
Fund raised date
2022-03-30

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.03
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (24)
  • Health Care (12)
  • Medical (12)
  • Pharmaceutical (11)
  • Therapeutics (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (23)
  • Canada (2)
  • China (2)
  • Singapore (3)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
15
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allievex 23 Oct 2019 Biotechnology Early Stage Venture United States, Massachusetts
Enlaza Therapeutics 30 Apr 2024 Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 100M United States, California, La Jolla
PocketEye 01 Nov 2022 Health Care Seed 68K England, London, United Kingdom

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