Syncona
Corporate investor
Active
London, United Kingdom
42
54M
22
3.50
18
0.48
6
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2012 was created Syncona Partners LLP, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.
The overall number of key employees were 11.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Syncona Partners LLP, startups are often financed by UCL Technology Fund, Sixth Element Capital, Woodford Investment Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UCL Technology Fund, UCLB, Sixth Element Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Woodford Investment Management, UCL Technology Fund, Sequoia Capital.
Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. This Syncona Partners LLP works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Syncona Partners LLP is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Diagnostics, Biopharma. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Gyroscope Therapeutics, Cambridge Epigenetix, Quell Therapeutics. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 42
- Lead investments
- 18
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 3.50
- Follow on index
- 0.48
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (33)
- Therapeutics (16)
- Health Care (15)
- Medical (12)
- Biopharma (8) Show 13 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (31)
- Switzerland (3)
- United States (7)
- Netherlands (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 5
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 41M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.67
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.29
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Gyroscope Therapeutics | 26 Mar 2021 | Biotechnology, Health Care, Genetics, Therapeutics | Late Stage Venture | 147M | England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom |
iOnctura | 20 Jun 2024 | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device | Early Stage Venture | 94M | Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva |
Qrcrypto | 25 May 2019 | FinTech, Cyber Security, Network Security | Seed | 1M | Switzerland, Vaud, Lausanne |
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