Ridgeback Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

30

Average round size

92M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

1.67

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoverySoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

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

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adaptimmune, 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Stem Cell Therapeutics. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Industrial, 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 real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Ridgeback Capital works on 60 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 partakers. Despite the Ridgeback Capital, startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, UBS Asset Management, Remeditex Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are venBio Partners, OrbiMed, F-Prime Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Eight Roads Ventures, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life Sciences

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
3
Exits
12
Rounds per year
1.67
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (27)
  • Health Care (15)
  • Therapeutics (11)
  • Pharmaceutical (7)
  • Biopharma (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (25)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
67M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
12
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adaptimmune 25 Sep 2014 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 104M England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Angell Technology 20 Nov 2013 Sales, Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device Seed 463K Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Crisp 02 Feb 2022 Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS Early Stage Venture 35M United States, New York, New York
ESTOKEN 10 Aug 2021 Seed 1M
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