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Ridgeback Capital

Founders Wayne Holman

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$87M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 1.61
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 11
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Crisp

Food and Beverage
SaaS
Software
$35M02 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Quell Therapeutics

Association
Biotechnology
Education
$156M29 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Arbor Biotechnologies

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$215M09 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Garuda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$72M23 Sep 2021 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

TwinStrand Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
$50M06 May 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Pyxis Oncology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$152M30 Mar 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Acepodia

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$47M16 Mar 2021 Vallejo, California, United States

Caribou Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$115M03 Mar 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Reverie Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
$25M03 Feb 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
Pyxis Oncology Raises $152M Series B Round

– Pyxis Oncology from Longwood Fund has closed a $152m Series B financing.
– The round was led by Arix Bioscience and co-led by RTW Investments, LP.
– New investors included Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital Management, Pfizer Ventures, BVF Partners, L.P., Janus Henderson Investors, Cormorant Asset Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, funds managed by Tekla Capital Management LLC, Acuta Capital Partners, Ridgeback Capital Investments, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Laurion Capital Management, Logos Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners.

Caribou Biosciences Raises $115M Series C Financing to Advance Next-Generation CRISPR Technologies and Allogeneic Cell Therapy Pipeline

– Caribou Biosciences, Inc. announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed $115m Series C financing.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to further develop the Company’s proprietary, next-generation CRISPR technology platform and to advance the Company’s pipeline of wholly-owned allogeneic immune cell therapies for oncology with best-in-class potential.
– The Series C financing was co-led by new premier healthcare investors Farallon Capital Management, PFM Health Sciences, and Ridgeback Capital Investments.

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Total investments 29
Average round size 87M
Rounds per year 1.61
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Crisp

Food and Beverage
SaaS
Software
$35M02 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Quell Therapeutics

Association
Biotechnology
Education
$156M29 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Arbor Biotechnologies

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$215M09 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Garuda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$72M23 Sep 2021 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

TwinStrand Biosciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
$50M06 May 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Pyxis Oncology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$152M30 Mar 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Acepodia

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$47M16 Mar 2021 Vallejo, California, United States

Caribou Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$115M03 Mar 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Reverie Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
$25M03 Feb 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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