Sanofi Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

85

Average round size

45M

Portfolio companies

58

Rounds per year

2.83

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyAnalyticsHealth CareWellnessMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

In 1994 was created Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cambridge.

The average startup value when the investment from Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, GE Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Novartis Venture Fund, Atlas Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wellington Management, Rock Springs Capital, RA Capital Management.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Therapeutics, Pharmaceutical. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Omada Health, Expansion Therapeutics, Evidation Health.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesHealthcareMedtech
Stage focus
GeneralistSeedSeries ASeries BSeries C

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
85
Lead investments
10
Exits
16
Rounds per year
2.83
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (70)
  • Health Care (58)
  • Therapeutics (34)
  • Medical (32)
  • Pharmaceutical (29)
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Investments by region
  • United States (73)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Denmark (4)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • France (2)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
56M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.71
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
QurAlis 09 Mar 2023 Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 88M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Sudo Biosciences 13 Feb 2024 Biopharma Early Stage Venture 30M United States, Menlo Park, California
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