SB Life Science

Total investments

8

Average round size

179M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.38

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHospitalGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeutics

Summary

In 2001 was created SB Life Science, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood City.

The top activity for fund was in 2005. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this SB Life Science performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the SB Life Science, startups are often financed by Unilever Ventures, Maverick Ventures, CSK Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Unilever Ventures, Maverick Ventures, Zesiger Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zesiger Capital, Unilever Ventures, Sano Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Genetics, Health Care. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Perlegen Sciences, Kadmus Pharmaceuticals, Optimer Pharmaceuticals

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.38
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (7)
  • Pharmaceutical (7)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Genetics (3)
  • Therapeutics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2005
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
181M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
3.31

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CircuLite 23 Apr 2007 Health Care, Hospital, Medical Device Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Massachusetts, Framingham

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