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Sphera Funds Management

Founders Israel Mor

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$62M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.90
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 13
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Therapeutics
  • Biopharma
Summary

In 2004 was created Sphera Funds Management, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in Israel. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tel Aviv.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Genetics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Passage Bio, GenSight Biologics, Oncorus The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund was created by Israel Mor. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Sphera Funds Management performs on 71 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Sphera Funds Management, startups are often financed by Versant Ventures, OrbiMed, Index Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures, Perceptive Advisors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sofinnova Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ESCAPE Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$73M14 Sep 2020 South San Francisco, California, United States

C4 Therapeutics

Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutics
$150M16 Jun 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Passage Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
Wellness
$110M04 Sep 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Oncorus

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$79M21 Aug 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Stoke Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$90M23 Oct 2018 Massachusetts, United States

Ovid Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$75M11 Aug 2015 New York, New York, United States

GenSight Biologics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
$36M23 Jul 2015 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Total investments 18
Average round size 62M
Rounds per year 0.90
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ESCAPE Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$73M14 Sep 2020 South San Francisco, California, United States

C4 Therapeutics

Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutics
$150M16 Jun 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Passage Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
Wellness
$110M04 Sep 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Oncorus

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$79M21 Aug 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Stoke Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$90M23 Oct 2018 Massachusetts, United States

Ovid Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$75M11 Aug 2015 New York, New York, United States

GenSight Biologics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
$36M23 Jul 2015 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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