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Sphera Global Healthcare Fund

Founders Mori Arkin

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$102M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 1.30
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 18
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Health Care
  • Medical
Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Tel Aviv. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Israel.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Orchard Therapeutics, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Genetics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

This organization was formed by Mori Arkin. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Sphera Global Healthcare Fund works on 71 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Sphera Global Healthcare Fund, startups are often financed by F-Prime Capital, UCL Technology Fund, Temasek Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, Viking Global Investors, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Finance LLC.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Frontier Medicines

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$88M19 Jul 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$73M30 Mar 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Werewolf Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$72M07 Jan 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

LianBio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$310M29 Oct 2020 Shanghai, China

Frontier Medicines

$88M19 Jul 2019 -

Orchard Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$150M13 Aug 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$52M01 Jun 2017 Massachusetts, United States
News
Immune-Onc Therapeutics Announces $73 Million in Series B1 and B2 Financing to Advance its Portfolio of Novel Immunotherapies in Blood Cancers and Solid Tumors

– Immune-Onc Therapeutics, Inc. (“Immune-Onc”), a clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company developing novel biotherapeutics targeting immunosuppressive myeloid checkpoints today announced the closing of a $73 million Series B1 and B2 financing.
– The round was led by Oceanpine Capital with participation from additional new investors including Octagon Capital and Sphera Healthcare, and existing investors, including Northern Light Venture Capital and Vivo Capital.
– In conjunction with this round of financing, Oceanpine CEO and managing partner Dave Chenn joins the Immune-Onc Board of Directors.

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Total investments 26
Average round size 102M
Rounds per year 1.30
Peak activity year 2024
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Frontier Medicines

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$88M19 Jul 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$73M30 Mar 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Werewolf Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$72M07 Jan 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

LianBio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$310M29 Oct 2020 Shanghai, China

Frontier Medicines

$88M19 Jul 2019 -

Orchard Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$150M13 Aug 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$52M01 Jun 2017 Massachusetts, United States
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