West Health Investment Fund

Total investments

16

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

1.33

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareHospitalSaaSMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalClinical Trials

Summary

In 2009 was created West Health Investment Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the La Jolla.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the West Health Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Qualcomm Ventures, Sanderling Ventures, Sandbox Industries. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Qualcomm Ventures, EDBI, Aberdare Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EDBI, Qualcomm Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund.

The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this West Health Investment Fund performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Service Industry, Medical Device. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Change Healthcare, Change Healthcare, Airstrip Technologies The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
2
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.33
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (13)
  • Medical (11)
  • Medical Device (9)
  • Software (5)
  • SaaS (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
66.52
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sotera Wireless 20 Apr 2010 Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Late Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Diego

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