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Pappas Ventures

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 1.70
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 21
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

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

Pappas Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The main department of described VC is located in the Durham. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Pappas Ventures, startups are often financed by Asset Management Ventures (AMV), Domain Associates, Frazier Healthcare Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Morningside Group, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Domain Associates, New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins.

This Pappas Ventures works on 17 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The top activity for fund was in 2010. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Pappas Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Medical. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline TESARO, Afferent Pharmaceuticals, CardioDx The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VelosBio

$58M01 Oct 2018 -

Kezar Life Sciences

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$50M25 Jul 2017 South San Francisco, California, United States

Evidation Health

Analytics
Big Data
Data Center
Health Care
Information Services
$3M11 Oct 2016 California, United States

Rotation Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$12M16 Aug 2016 Minnesota, United States

Milestone Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Health Care
Pharmaceuticals
Therapeutics
$17M15 Jun 2015 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Balance Therapeutics

Developer Tools
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$18M19 Mar 2015 California, United States

Aura Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$21M05 Mar 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

CoLucid Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Medical Device
Other Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceuticals
$37M13 Jan 2015 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Rotation Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$27M02 Jul 2014 Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 51
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 1.70
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VelosBio

$58M01 Oct 2018 -

Kezar Life Sciences

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$50M25 Jul 2017 South San Francisco, California, United States

Evidation Health

Analytics
Big Data
Data Center
Health Care
Information Services
$3M11 Oct 2016 California, United States

Rotation Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$12M16 Aug 2016 Minnesota, United States

Milestone Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Health Care
Pharmaceuticals
Therapeutics
$17M15 Jun 2015 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Balance Therapeutics

Developer Tools
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$18M19 Mar 2015 California, United States

Aura Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$21M05 Mar 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

CoLucid Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Medical Device
Other Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceuticals
$37M13 Jan 2015 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Rotation Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$27M02 Jul 2014 Minnesota, United States
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