Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse

Total investments

63

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

38

Rounds per year

2.86

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalLife ScienceTherapeuticsHardware

Summary

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Pittsburgh.

The overall number of key employees were 6.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, startups are often financed by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Ogden Capital, Novitas Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BlueTree Allied Angels, Accelerator Fund, Harbor Light Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, BlueTree Allied Angels, Accelerator Fund.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2010. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. This Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse is 10-50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Medrobotics, Saladax Biomedical, Cognition Therapeutics.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
63
Lead investments
11
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.86
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (43)
  • Health Care (36)
  • Medical Device (22)
  • Therapeutics (17)
  • Life Science (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (62)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8M
Group Appearance index
0.48
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
4.33

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Cognition Therapeutics16 Jul 2009Biotechnology, Life Science, TherapeuticsEarly Stage Venture1MUnited States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Complexa11 Oct 2013Biotechnology, Health Care, TherapeuticsEarly Stage Venture200KUnited States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Flodesign Sonics11 Jan 2018Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Life Science, ChemicalEarly Stage Venture0United States, Massachusetts
Forage Hyperfoods Inc.01 Aug 2021Food and BeverageEarly Stage Venture1MOntario, Ottawa, Canada
Sensus AI06 Dec 2022Seed295K

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