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venBio Partners

Founders Corey Goodman Kurt von Emster Robert Adelman

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Total investments 77
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$71M
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 5.13
Lead investments 23
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 23
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Therapeutics
  • Biopharma
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Genetics, Therapeutics. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adaptimmune, Harmony Biosciences, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Corey Goodman, Kurt von Emster, Robert Adelman. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this venBio Partners works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from venBio Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the venBio Partners, startups are often financed by Remeditex Ventures, Sofinnova Investments, F-Prime Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vivo Capital, F-Prime Capital, Sofinnova Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vivo Capital, F-Prime Capital, Cormorant Asset Management.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$50M28 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

Insamo

$12M21 Feb 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

Attralus

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$56M06 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Attovia Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$60M20 Jun 2023 Fremont, California, United States

Abdera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
$142M20 Apr 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Entact Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$81M06 Dec 2022 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

ACELYRIN

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$300M13 Sep 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

ImmPACT Bio USA

Biotechnology
Life Science
$139M20 Jan 2022 California, United States
News
RayzeBio Secures $108 Million Series C Financing to Drive Forward Its Pipeline of Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer

– RayzeBio, Inc. announced a $108m Series C financing led by Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners alongside new investors Perceptive Advisors, Vivo Capital, Acuta Capital Partners, Deerfield Management, and TCG X.
– Also participating were all of Rayze’s existing investors: venBio Partners, Versant Ventures, Samsara BioCapital, Redmile Group, Viking Global Investors, Cormorant Asset Management, OrbiMed, LifeSci Venture Partners, Logos Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments, and others.
– The targeted radiopharmaceuticals field represents a highly clinically validated modality that, until recently, has been underappreciated.
– With over $258m of capital raised since the company first debuted in the second half of 2020, RayzeBio has rapidly expanded its team, infrastructure, capabilities, and pipeline.

Ventyx Biosciences Raises $114M in Funding

– Ventyx is an Encinitas, California-based clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing a broad pipeline of potent and selective small-molecule drug candidates to treat inflammatory diseases and autoimmune disorders.
– The company raised $114m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by venBio Partners alongside new investors, including Third Point, RTW Investments, LP, Janus Henderson Investors, Wellington Management, OrbiMed, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Farallon Capital, Vivo Capital, Logos Capital, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Cormorant Asset Management, and participation from founding investor New Science Ventures.

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Total investments 77
Average round size 71M
Rounds per year 5.13
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.99

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$50M28 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

Insamo

$12M21 Feb 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

Attralus

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$56M06 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Attovia Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$60M20 Jun 2023 Fremont, California, United States

Abdera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
$142M20 Apr 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Entact Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$81M06 Dec 2022 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

ACELYRIN

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$300M13 Sep 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

ImmPACT Bio USA

Biotechnology
Life Science
$139M20 Jan 2022 California, United States
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