Skyline Ventures

Total investments

79

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

2.93

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

31

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeutics

Summary

In 1997 was created Skyline Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this Skyline Ventures works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Skyline Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2006. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline NovaSys, Calibra Medical, Satiety Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Hospital.

The current fund was established by Eric M Gordon, John Freund. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Skyline Ventures, startups are often financed by TVM Capital, SV Health Investors, Intersouth Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TVM Capital, Intersouth Partners, InterWest Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TVM Capital, Intersouth Partners, Montreux Equity Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
79
Lead investments
13
Exits
31
Rounds per year
2.93
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (61)
  • Health Care (47)
  • Medical (44)
  • Pharmaceutical (22)
  • Medical Device (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (77)
  • China (2)
Peak activity year
2006
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
127M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
2.07
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Collegium Pharmaceutical 15 Feb 2012 Biotechnology, Medical, Life Science, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 22M United States, Massachusetts
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals 01 Jun 2010 Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma Late Stage Venture 45M United States, Massachusetts

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