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Wellcome Trust

Founders Sir Henry Wellcome

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Total investments 121
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$67M
Portfolio companies 85
Rounds per year 1.39
Lead investments 28
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 35
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Therapeutics
Summary

Wellcome Trust appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1936. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Diagnostics, Medical Device. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Instacart, DoorDash, Klarna.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Wellcome Trust, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, ARCH Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ARCH Venture Partners, Venrock, Abingworth. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novo Holdings, Venrock, ARCH Venture Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Wellcome Trust works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Wellcome Trust is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

The current fund was established by Sir Henry Wellcome. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Transformative AI

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
$1M27 Jul 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Karuna Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$68M18 Mar 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Karuna Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$42M02 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kymab

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Pharmaceuticals
Therapeutics
$100M24 Nov 2016 England

Acesion Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$10M03 Nov 2016 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Acesion Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$10M01 Nov 2016 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Pearl

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer Electronics
Customer Service
$50M21 Jun 2016 California, United States

DoorDash

Delivery
Food Delivery
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Mobile Apps
$127M22 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Elastagen

Clinical Trials
Medical
Medical Device
$9M07 Jan 2016 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Total investments 121
Average round size 67M
Rounds per year 1.39
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 28
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 35
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Transformative AI

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
$1M27 Jul 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Karuna Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$68M18 Mar 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Karuna Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$42M02 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kymab

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Pharmaceuticals
Therapeutics
$100M24 Nov 2016 England

Acesion Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$10M03 Nov 2016 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Acesion Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$10M01 Nov 2016 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Pearl

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer Electronics
Customer Service
$50M21 Jun 2016 California, United States

DoorDash

Delivery
Food Delivery
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Mobile Apps
$127M22 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Elastagen

Clinical Trials
Medical
Medical Device
$9M07 Jan 2016 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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