Van Herk Ventures

Total investments

19

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.26

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Diagnostic EquipmentBiotechnologyOther Devices and SuppliesHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife ScienceTherapeutics

Summary

Van Herk Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1951. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands. The main department of described VC is located in the Rotterdam.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Van Herk Ventures, startups are often financed by Thuja Capital, Global Life Science Ventures, Gilde Healthcare. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gilde Healthcare, Thuja Capital, Global Life Science Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gilde Healthcare, University of Antwerp, Thuja Capital.

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 - The Netherlands. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Agendia, Sensara, Nightbalance.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Van Herk Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
5
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.26
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (13)
  • Health Care (9)
  • Medical (7)
  • Health Diagnostics (6)
  • Life Science (6)
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Investments by region
  • Netherlands (17)
  • India (1)
  • Belgium (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Group Appearance index
0.63
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Vitalnext 01 Jul 2013 Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics Seed South Holland, Leiden, Netherlands

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