Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund

Total investments

23

Average round size

30M

Portfolio companies

14

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

8

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedical DeviceMedicalDeveloper PlatformPharmaceuticalMarket ResearchTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund, startups are often financed by InterWest Partners, HealthCare Ventures, Frazier Healthcare Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HealthCare Ventures, Montreux Equity Partners, Schroder Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Roche Venture Fund, L Capital Partners, HealthCare Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Diagnostics, Biopharma. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Myogen, CeNeRx BioPharma Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top activity for fund was in 2004. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund works on 10 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
5
Exits
8
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (21)
  • Health Care (12)
  • Pharmaceutical (10)
  • Biopharma (6)
  • Medical (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
Peak activity year
2004
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
279M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
11.94

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ambit Biosciences 12 May 2005 Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma Late Stage Venture 31M United States, California, San Diego
Oculex Pharmaceuticals 22 Oct 2002 Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 50M United States, California, Sunnyvale
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