Venrock Healthcare Partners

Total investments

66

Average round size

134M

Portfolio companies

55

Rounds per year

1.20

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

28

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareWellnessGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sojournix, Corvidia, Metacrine.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8 participants. Despite the Venrock Healthcare Partners, startups are often financed by venBio Partners, Polaris Partners, Pappas Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Boxer Capital, RTW Investments LLC, RA Capital Management.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Venrock Healthcare Partners works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
7
Exits
28
Rounds per year
1.20
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (59)
  • Health Care (36)
  • Therapeutics (27)
  • Pharmaceutical (20)
  • Medical (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (54)
  • France (3)
  • China (2)
  • Canada (2)
  • Bermuda (1)
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Peak activity year
2024
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
317M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
2.15
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lycia Therapeutics 13 May 2024 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science Late Stage Venture 106M United States, California, San Diego
Mythic Therapeutics 15 Dec 2021 Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 103M United States, Massachusetts
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