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Quark Venture

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 4.25
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 4
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Therapeutics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpha9 Theranostics

Biotechnology
Medical
Product Research
$75M14 Dec 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

V-Wave

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$98M16 Dec 2021 Israel, North District, Israel

Lyndra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$60M24 Jun 2021 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Medical
$32M06 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

V-Wave

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$28M22 Sep 2020 Israel, North District, Israel

EnClear Therapies

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$10M19 Feb 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Volastra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
$12M11 Feb 2020 New York, New York, United States

Eyevensys

Biotechnology
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$30M08 Jan 2020 Ile-de-France

Raziel Health

Health Care
Therapeutics
$22M18 Dec 2019 Florida, United States
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Lyndra Therapeutics Closes $60.5M Series C Financing

– Lyndra Therapeutics from Watertown, MA develops a novel technology platform that transforms daily pills into once-weekly to monthly oral treatment options.
– The company closed a $60.5m Series C financing round.
– The round was led by new investor, AIG Investments, an affiliate of American International Group with participation from new investors Yipinhong Pharmaceutical (USA) Limited, Limitless Ventures and the Catalytic Impact Foundation with ImpactAssets, and existing investors Polaris Partners, Invus, Quark Venture, Mass General Brigham Ventures, HOPU Investments, and Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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Total investments 34
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 4.25
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpha9 Theranostics

Biotechnology
Medical
Product Research
$75M14 Dec 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

V-Wave

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$98M16 Dec 2021 Israel, North District, Israel

Lyndra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$60M24 Jun 2021 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Medical
$32M06 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

V-Wave

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$28M22 Sep 2020 Israel, North District, Israel

EnClear Therapies

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$10M19 Feb 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Volastra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
$12M11 Feb 2020 New York, New York, United States

Eyevensys

Biotechnology
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$30M08 Jan 2020 Ile-de-France

Raziel Health

Health Care
Therapeutics
$22M18 Dec 2019 Florida, United States
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