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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 0.40
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1925. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Madison.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, startups are often financed by Venture Investors, Wisconsin Investment Partners, State of Wisconsin Investment Board. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Wisconsin Investment Partners, Venture Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wisconsin Investment Partners, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Venture Management.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Energy Storage. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline FluGen, NeuWave Medical, Mithridion The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Leo Cancer Care

Health Care
11 Jun 2024 Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Ubicept

Computer Vision
Image Recognition
$8M25 Jul 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Realta Fusion

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Industrial
$9M31 May 2023 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Pyran

Chemical
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$1M28 Feb 2023 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Immuto Scientific

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$2M08 Oct 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Pyran

Chemical
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$3M17 Aug 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Isomark

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
16 Aug 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Leo Cancer Care

Health Care
$25M20 Jul 2021 Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Health Care
Medical Device
Real Time
Social Entrepreneurship
$7M30 Apr 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
News
OnLume Surgical Closes $7M Series A Financing

– OnLume Surgical, a Madison, Wis.-based medical device company developing novel imaging systems for use during surgery, closed a $7m Series A funding.
– The round was led by Cambridge Investment Group (Luzich Partners LLC) with participation from WARF Ventures (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) and Wisconsin Investment Partners (WIP).
– The company intends to use the funds to execute its plans for commercial launch.

Stuart Therapeutics Raises $11M in Series A Funding

– Stuart Therapeutics from Stuart, Florida develops peptide therapeutics for ophthalmic diseases.
– The company raised $11m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by InFocus Capital Partners, with participation from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), MiMo Capital and BioBrit.
– The proceeds from the round will fund Phase 2 clinical trials for the company’s proprietary reparative therapeutic candidate, ST-100.

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Total investments 40
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.40
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Leo Cancer Care

Health Care
11 Jun 2024 Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Ubicept

Computer Vision
Image Recognition
$8M25 Jul 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Realta Fusion

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Industrial
$9M31 May 2023 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Pyran

Chemical
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$1M28 Feb 2023 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Immuto Scientific

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$2M08 Oct 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Pyran

Chemical
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$3M17 Aug 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Isomark

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
16 Aug 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Leo Cancer Care

Health Care
$25M20 Jul 2021 Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Health Care
Medical Device
Real Time
Social Entrepreneurship
$7M30 Apr 2021 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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