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Cormorant Asset Management

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Total investments 195
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$79M
Portfolio companies 145
Rounds per year 17.73
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 75
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

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

The main department of described VC is located in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Life Science. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Audentes Therapeutics, Innovent Biologics, ZAI Lab

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Cormorant Asset Management the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Cormorant Asset Management works on 22 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Cormorant Asset Management, startups are often financed by ARCH Venture Partners, Third Rock Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foresite Capital, Wellington Management, EcoR1 Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EcoR1 Capital, Visionnaire Ventures, Senvest Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BlossomHill Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$100M02 Jan 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Synnovation Therapeutics

Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$102M14 Dec 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

AgomAb Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$111M11 Oct 2023 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Akura Medical

Health Care
Medical
$35M03 Oct 2023 Campbell, California, United States

Rapport Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$150M23 Aug 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Nexo Therapeutics

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

Myra Vision

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Wellness
$25M26 Jun 2023 California, United States

OnKure

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$54M23 May 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

BioVentrix

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Monitoring Equipment
Surgical Devices
$48M13 Apr 2023 California, United States
News
ShouTi Secures $100 Million Series B Financing to Accelerate Development of Life-Changing Medicines Fueled by Advanced Computational, Structure-Based Drug Design Platform

– ShouTi Inc. announced the close of a $100m Series B financing round.
– The round was led by BVF Partners. Additional new investors include Casdin Capital, Cormorant Asset Management, Janus Henderson Investors, Lilly Asia Ventures, Monashee Capital, Sage Partners, Stork Capital, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), TCG X, Terra Magnum Capital Partners, Woodline Partners, and co-founder and strategic partner Schrödinger.
– Existing investors also participated in the financing, including Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital Partners, Qiming Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital China, TF Capital and Wuxi AppTec.

Garuda Therapeutics Raises $72M in Series A Financing

– Garuda Therapeutics from Cambridge develops off-the-shelf, durable blood stem cell therapies.
– Series A funding of $72m brings company valuation to more than $1b.
– The round was led by Aisling Capital, Northpond Ventures and Orbimed, supported by Cormorant Asset Management, Ridgeback Capital Investments, Monashee Investment Management, Sectoral Asset Management, National Resilience, Inc. (Resilience), Mass General Brigham Ventures, among others.

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Total investments 195
Average round size 79M
Rounds per year 17.73
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 75
Group Appearance index 0.99

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BlossomHill Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$100M02 Jan 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Synnovation Therapeutics

Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$102M14 Dec 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

AgomAb Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$111M11 Oct 2023 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Akura Medical

Health Care
Medical
$35M03 Oct 2023 Campbell, California, United States

Rapport Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$150M23 Aug 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Nexo Therapeutics

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

Myra Vision

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Wellness
$25M26 Jun 2023 California, United States

OnKure

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$54M23 May 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

BioVentrix

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Monitoring Equipment
Surgical Devices
$48M13 Apr 2023 California, United States
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