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Pivotal bioVenture Partners

Founders Tracy Saxton

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$92M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 5.00
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 11
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Biopharma
Summary

Pivotal bioVenture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Pharmaceutical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fusion Pharmaceuticals, SutroVax, Bolt Biotherapeutics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Tracy Saxton. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019. This Pivotal bioVenture Partners works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Pivotal bioVenture Partners, startups are often financed by Frazier Healthcare Partners, Wellcome Trust, Technology Development Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sofinnova Investments, Vivo Capital, Frazier Healthcare Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tekla Capital Management, TPG Growth, Roche Venture Fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zenas BioPharma

Biopharma
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$200M07 May 2024 -

Avalyn Pharma

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$175M27 Sep 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Evommune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$50M26 Apr 2023 California, United States

Heranova Lifesciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$10M08 Mar 2023 Huangpu, Shanghai, China

Zenas BioPharma

Biopharma
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$118M07 Nov 2022 -

Plexium

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$102M23 Feb 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Arkuda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$64M10 Feb 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

HotSpot Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$100M29 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Evommune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$83M09 Sep 2021 California, United States
News
Obsidian Therapeutics Closes $115M Series B Financing

– Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc. is a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company pioneering engineered cell and gene therapies.
– The company closed a $115m Series B financing.
– The round was led by The Column Group Crossover Fund (TCGX) with participation from RA Capital Management, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Cowen Healthcare Investments, Deep Track Capital, Logos Capital, Pivotal BioVenture Partners, Samsara BioCapital, and Soleus Capital, and existing investors Atlas Venture, Vertex Ventures HC, Amgen Ventures, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to drive Obsidian’s lead tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) program, cytoTIL15, into the clinic and to first clinical data for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. In addition, the company plans to rapidly expand cytoTIL15 into multiple other solid tumor types and to advance its commercial manufacturing build.

Vigil Neuroscience Completes $90 million Series B Financing to Advance a Pipeline of Microglia-targeted Medicines to Treat Rare and Common Neurodegenerative Diseases

– Vigil Neuroscience, a biotechnology company harnessing the power of microglia for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, announced the completion of a $90m Series B financing to further advance Vigil’s proprietary pipeline of microglia-targeted medicines for the treatment of neurodegeneration.
– The financing was led by Vida Ventures with participation from existing investors Atlas Venture, Northpond Ventures and Hatteras Venture Partners as well as new investors including Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Cormorant Asset Management, Invus, OrbiMed, Rock Springs Capital, Deep Track Capital, Logos Capital, Pivotal bioVenture Partners, and Lightstone Ventures.

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Total investments 35
Average round size 92M
Rounds per year 5.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zenas BioPharma

Biopharma
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$200M07 May 2024 -

Avalyn Pharma

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$175M27 Sep 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Evommune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$50M26 Apr 2023 California, United States

Heranova Lifesciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$10M08 Mar 2023 Huangpu, Shanghai, China

Zenas BioPharma

Biopharma
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$118M07 Nov 2022 -

Plexium

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$102M23 Feb 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Arkuda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$64M10 Feb 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

HotSpot Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$100M29 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Evommune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$83M09 Sep 2021 California, United States
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