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Prospect Venture Partners

Founders Alex Barkas

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Total investments 90
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 3.46
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 24
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

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

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Prospect Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Venrock, Three Arch Partners, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, Three Arch Partners, ARCH Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Alta Partners, Versant Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Topica Pharmaceuticals. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biopharma, Health Care. 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 is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2004. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Prospect Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. This Prospect Venture Partners works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

This organization was formed by Alex Barkas. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nora Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$18M17 Apr 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Element Science

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Wearables
$12M19 Mar 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

NinePoint Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$34M18 Mar 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

NGM Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Medical
$50M18 Jul 2013 South San Francisco, California, United States

SentreHEART

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$26M04 Jun 2012 Redwood City, California, United States

Topica Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$27M18 Oct 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$4M11 Oct 2011 Pennsylvania, United States

Satori Pharmaceuticals

Health Care
Neuroscience
Pharmaceutical
$7M05 Jan 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

NinePoint Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$33M14 Oct 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 90
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 3.46
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nora Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$18M17 Apr 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Element Science

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Wearables
$12M19 Mar 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

NinePoint Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$34M18 Mar 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

NGM Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Medical
$50M18 Jul 2013 South San Francisco, California, United States

SentreHEART

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$26M04 Jun 2012 Redwood City, California, United States

Topica Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$27M18 Oct 2011 Palo Alto, California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$4M11 Oct 2011 Pennsylvania, United States

Satori Pharmaceuticals

Health Care
Neuroscience
Pharmaceutical
$7M05 Jan 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

NinePoint Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$33M14 Oct 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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