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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$46M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 2.43
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Life Science
Summary

UCB Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the UCB Ventures, startups are often financed by The Westly Group, HealthTech Capital, CVSHealth. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Westly Group, Temasek Holdings, Qiming Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Locana, MyHealthTeams. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Social Network, Medical.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SomaServe

$27M13 Nov 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Switch Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$52M14 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Code Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$75M07 Jun 2022 Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States

Splice Bio

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$59M15 Feb 2022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

EsoBiotec

Biotechnology
$3M30 Sep 2021 Mont-saint-guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium

StrideBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
Therapeutics
$81M16 Mar 2021 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$100M14 Dec 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Biotechnology
Life Science
$51M06 Oct 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Syndesi Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M28 Sep 2020 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium
News
ExeVir Closes US$50M Series A Financing

– ExeVir from Ghent, Belgium develops single domain antibody therapies providing broad protection against viral infections.
– The company closed its Series A financing raising a total of US$50m.
– Led by Fund+, the round was also joined by VIB, UCB Ventures, SFPI-FPIM, V-Bio Ventures and new investors SRIW, Noshaq, Vives IUF, SambrInvest as well as several Belgian family offices.
– The company is using the funds to commence the global phase 1b/2 clinical trial of lead compound XVR011 and develop a VHH72-Fc sub-cutaneous formulation for Covid-19 in parallel and accelerate development of its pipeline beyond Covid-19 in infectious diseases.

StrideBio Closes $81.5M Series B Financing

– StrideBio, Inc. is a Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based developer of novel engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies.
– The company closed a $81.5m Series B funding round.
Northpond Ventures and Novo Holdings A/S co-led the round with new investors Pontifax, Octagon Capital, Sarepta Therapeutics, CaaS Capital and UF Innovate Ventures joining existing investors Hatteras Venture Partners, UCB Ventures, Takeda Ventures and Alexandria Venture Investments.

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Total investments 17
Average round size 46M
Rounds per year 2.43
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.24
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SomaServe

$27M13 Nov 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Switch Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$52M14 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Code Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$75M07 Jun 2022 Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States

Splice Bio

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$59M15 Feb 2022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

EsoBiotec

Biotechnology
$3M30 Sep 2021 Mont-saint-guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium

StrideBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
Therapeutics
$81M16 Mar 2021 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$100M14 Dec 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Biotechnology
Life Science
$51M06 Oct 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Syndesi Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M28 Sep 2020 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium
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