Quark Venture

Total investments

34

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

4.25

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

4

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyAnalyticsHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharmaClinical Trials

Summary

Quark Venture appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Vancouver. The company was established in North America in Canada.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Quark Venture works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Quark Venture, startups are often financed by Yaletown Partners, Pontifax, Polaris Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pontifax, Yonghua Capital, Yaletown Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GF Securities, Polaris Partners, Orient Life.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Clinical Trials. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline MSI Methylation Sciences, SQZ Biotech, Lyndra Therapeutics Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
5
Exits
4
Rounds per year
4.25
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (24)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Medical (12)
  • Pharmaceutical (11)
  • Therapeutics (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (17)
  • Israel (6)
  • Canada (10)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
1
Avg. multiplicator
61.67

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
V-Wave 16 Dec 2021 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Late Stage Venture 98M North District, Israel, Israel
Volastra Therapeutics 11 Feb 2020 Biotechnology, Medical Seed 12M United States, New York, New York
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