Pontifax AgTech

Summary

Pontifax AgTech appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Santa Monica. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Caribou Biosciences, Provivi, AgBiome. 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 most popular fund investment industries, there are Biopharma, Health Care. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Pontifax AgTech, startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), Innotech Advisers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TPG Alternative & Renewable Technologies, Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), UTIMCO. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UTIMCO, TPG Alternative & Renewable Technologies, Shu Duan.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Pontifax AgTech works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Benjamin Belldegrun, Philip Erlanger. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.