Sofinnova Investments

Summary

Sofinnova Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 1974. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Therapeutics. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spark Therapeutics, Audentes Therapeutics, ZS Pharma. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Sofinnova Investments, startups are often financed by Ventech, Bay City Capital, Vivo Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ventech, New Leaf Venture Partners, Atlas Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ventech, Novartis Venture Fund, Idinvest Partners.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This Sofinnova Investments works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Sofinnova Investments the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The overall number of key employees were 13.