Taiho Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

30

Average round size

44M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

3.75

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

5

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedicalPersonal HealthLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the California City.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Taiho Ventures, startups are often financed by The Column Group, OrbiMed, Foresite Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Column Group, OrbiMed, Foresite Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Column Group, OrbiMed, Invus.

The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Taiho Ventures works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Axial Biotherapeutics, Breakpoint Therapeutics, Harpoon Therapeutics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biopharma, Biotechnology. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesMedtechHealthcare
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
6
Exits
5
Rounds per year
3.75
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (28)
  • Therapeutics (19)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Medical (13)
  • Life Science (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Germany (1)
  • Netherlands (2)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
3

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arcus Biosciences 13 Nov 2017 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics Late Stage Venture 107M United States, California, Hayward
EpiBiologics 20 Jul 2023 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 23M United States, California, San Mateo
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