Pura Vida Investments

Total investments

41

Average round size

117M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

3.42

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsWellnessGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeutics

Summary

In 2012 was created Pura Vida Investments, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Pharmaceutical, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Acutus Medical, MedAvail, V-Wave. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Pura Vida Investments, startups are often financed by Pontifax, OrbiMed, GE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Triventures, Redmile Group, Pontifax. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Deerfield Capital Management, Triventures, Royalties Fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
1
Exits
9
Rounds per year
3.42
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (30)
  • Biotechnology (29)
  • Medical (17)
  • Medical Device (14)
  • Health Diagnostics (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
  • Israel (5)
  • Germany (4)
  • Canada (5)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
363M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
2

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