Vivo Capital

Summary

In 1997 was created Vivo Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Vivo Capital, startups are often financed by Sofinnova Investments, OrbiMed, Third Rock Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are InterWest Partners, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Aisling Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sofinnova Investments, Aisling Capital, Technology Partners.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ZAI Lab, Harmony Biosciences, Passage Bio Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Genetics.

This organization was formed by Edgar G. Engleman. The overall number of key employees were 11.

Comparing to the other companies, this Vivo Capital performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Vivo Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.