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Versant Ventures

Founders Barbara Lubash Brian Atwood Donald B. Milder Rebecca Robertson Samuel Colella William Link

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Total investments 375
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$34M
Portfolio companies 179
Rounds per year 15.00
Lead investments 55
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 90
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
  • Therapeutics
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Firefly Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
$94M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Enterprise Therapeutics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$35M29 Jan 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Nouscom

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Therapeutics
$79M14 Nov 2023 Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland

Gate Bioscience

Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
$60M01 Nov 2023 Brisbane, California, United States

Tentarix Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
$35M06 Sep 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Nexo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$60M26 Jul 2023 Littleton, Colorado, United States

Kate Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$51M08 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Belharra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Chemical
Therapeutics
$50M04 Jan 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Launchpad Therapeutics

Life Science
Therapeutics
$30M12 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
858 Therapeutics Launches with Proven Team and $60 Million Series A Financing

– 858 Therapeutics has raised $60m in Series A financing.
– The round was led by founding investor Versant Ventures, with participation from NEA, Cormorant Asset Management and Logos Capital.
– 858 is a biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
– The company’s lead program is a novel small molecule inhibitor of the PI3K/mTOR pathway that is being developed for the treatment of solid tumors that are resistant to existing therapies.
– The Series A proceeds will allow 858 to enter the clinic with its lead candidates that have potential to treat cancers that are resistant to current therapies.

iECURE Launches With $50 Million Series A Financing to Develop In Vivo Gene Insertion Approaches for Devastating Diseases

– iECURE (pronounced EE-ah-cure), a mutation-agnostic in vivo gene editing company striving to cure devastating diseases with high unmet need, announced it has closed a $50m Series A financing led by Versant Ventures and OrbiMed Advisors.
– The funds will be used to advance iECURE’s pipeline of up to 13 programs, all of which benefit from gene editing and in vivo delivery approaches being developed in the laboratory of James Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania Gene Therapy Program (GTP).
– iECURE’s approach focuses on the mutation-agnostic in vivo insertion of healthy copies of disease-causing genes, with an initial focus in liver disorders.

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Total investments 375
Average round size 34M
Rounds per year 15.00
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 55
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 90
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Firefly Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
$94M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Enterprise Therapeutics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$35M29 Jan 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Nouscom

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Therapeutics
$79M14 Nov 2023 Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland

Gate Bioscience

Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
$60M01 Nov 2023 Brisbane, California, United States

Tentarix Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
$35M06 Sep 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Nexo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$60M26 Jul 2023 Littleton, Colorado, United States

Kate Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$51M08 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Belharra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Chemical
Therapeutics
$50M04 Jan 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Launchpad Therapeutics

Life Science
Therapeutics
$30M12 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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