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RA Capital Management

Founders Richard Aldrich

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Total investments 385
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$84M
Portfolio companies 279
Rounds per year 16.74
Lead investments 64
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 116
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

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

RA Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the RA Capital Management, startups are often financed by OrbiMed, F-Prime Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wellington Management, Longitude Capital, Deerfield. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OrbiMed, Cormorant Asset Management, Polaris Partners.

Opposing the other organizations, this RA Capital Management works on 23 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from RA Capital Management is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

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 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline AveXis, Moderna Therapeutics, Intarcia Therapeutics Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Health Diagnostics.

This organization was formed by Richard Aldrich. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sionna Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$182M06 Mar 2024 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Frontier Medicines

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$80M22 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$110M21 Feb 2024 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

ProfoundBio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$112M13 Feb 2024 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Claris Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$57M04 Jan 2024 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

NTX

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$47M15 Nov 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Forward Therapeutics

Health Care
$50M08 Nov 2023 Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

Rampart Bioscience

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$85M24 Oct 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Amplifier Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$33M17 Oct 2023 -
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Obsidian Therapeutics Closes $115M Series B Financing

– Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc. is a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company pioneering engineered cell and gene therapies.
– The company closed a $115m Series B financing.
– The round was led by The Column Group Crossover Fund (TCGX) with participation from RA Capital Management, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Cowen Healthcare Investments, Deep Track Capital, Logos Capital, Pivotal BioVenture Partners, Samsara BioCapital, and Soleus Capital, and existing investors Atlas Venture, Vertex Ventures HC, Amgen Ventures, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to drive Obsidian’s lead tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) program, cytoTIL15, into the clinic and to first clinical data for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. In addition, the company plans to rapidly expand cytoTIL15 into multiple other solid tumor types and to advance its commercial manufacturing build.

HilleVax Closes $135 Million Crossover Financing to Advance Clinical Stage Norovirus Vaccine Candidate

– HilleVax, Inc. (HilleVax), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel vaccine candidates, announced the close of a $135 million crossover financing led by Frazier Healthcare Partners and joined by RA Capital Management, Deerfield Management Company, Abingworth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Perceptive Advisors, Catalys Pacific, Samsara BioCapital, BVF Partners, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Greenspring Associates, Richard King Mellon Foundation, and Sahsen Ventures.
– The proceeds of this financing support the further clinical development of HilleVax’s virus-like particle (VLP) based vaccine candidate, HIL-214, for the prevention of moderate-to-severe acute gastroenteritis caused by norovirus infection.

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Total investments 385
Average round size 84M
Rounds per year 16.74
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 64
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 116
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sionna Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$182M06 Mar 2024 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Frontier Medicines

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$80M22 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$110M21 Feb 2024 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

ProfoundBio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$112M13 Feb 2024 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Claris Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$57M04 Jan 2024 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

NTX

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$47M15 Nov 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Forward Therapeutics

Health Care
$50M08 Nov 2023 Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

Rampart Bioscience

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$85M24 Oct 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Amplifier Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$33M17 Oct 2023 -
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