Roche Venture Fund

Total investments

118

Average round size

42M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

5.36

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

25

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalDelivery ServiceTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

Roche Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Basel. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland. Roche Venture Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AveXis, Foundation Medicine, Alios BioPharma. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Roche Venture Fund, startups are often financed by SR One, Apple Tree Partners, Pfizer Venture Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 5AM Ventures, Lilly Ventures, Ysios Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SR One, Pfizer Venture Investments, Lilly Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Roche Venture Fund performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
118
Lead investments
10
Exits
25
Rounds per year
5.36
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (107)
  • Health Care (61)
  • Therapeutics (48)
  • Medical (29)
  • Pharmaceutical (27)
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Investments by region
  • United States (80)
  • United Kingdom (12)
  • Spain (5)
  • Denmark (2)
  • Latvia (3)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
85M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
6.90
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Millendo Therapeutics 05 Jan 2016 Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 62M United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cour Pharmaceuticals Development 30 Jan 2024 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 105M United States, Illinois, Elmhurst
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