Versant Ventures

Summary

In 1999 was created Versant Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by Barbara Lubash, Brian Atwood, Donald B. Milder, Rebecca Robertson, Samuel Colella, William Link. Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Versant Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. This Versant Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Versant Ventures, startups are often financed by OrbiMed, Investor Growth Capital Limited, Frazier Healthcare Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pequot Capital, Novartis Venture Fund, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Novartis Venture Fund, Abingworth.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Audentes Therapeutics, Pharmion, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical Device, Life Science.