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Casdin Capital

Founders Eli Casdin

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Total investments 203
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$98M
Portfolio companies 148
Rounds per year 16.92
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 41
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Life Science
Summary

Casdin Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. This Casdin Capital works on 13 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Casdin Capital is more than 1 billion dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Casdin Capital, startups are often financed by The Column Group, ARCH Venture Partners, Topspin Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foresite Capital, Redmile Group, Wellington Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Redmile Group, Perceptive Advisors, GV.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Foundation Medicine, Flatiron Health, 23andMe. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ROME Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$72M12 Sep 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Thyme Care

Health Care
Medical
$60M21 Aug 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Octave Bioscience

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$32M26 Jul 2023 California, United States

Orbital Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$270M26 Apr 2023 -

Function Oncology

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$28M12 Apr 2023 San Diego, California, United States

iVexSol

Manufacturing
$23M26 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Nest Genomics (YC W22)

Health Care
$8M10 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Asimov

Biotechnology
$175M05 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Idrx

Biotechnology
Life Science
Product Research
$122M02 Aug 2022 -
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.

Hexagon Bio Raises $61 Million to Advance Novel Small-Molecule Medicines Mined from Microbial Genomes

– Hexagon Bio, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery of medicines encoded in the global metagenome, announced that it has raised $61 million to fuel the continued development of its platform to design and develop new therapeutics mined from microbial genomes.
Nextech Invest led the financing, with participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2* and Casdin Capital, as well as existing investors The Column Group, 8VC, and Two Sigma Ventures.
– Hexagon’s interdisciplinary platform combines technological advances and proprietary insights across machine learning, genomics, synthetic biology and automation to systematically discover new chemical compounds linked to known protein targets.
– Hexagon has built a database of microbial genomes that is more than twice the size of all public databases and is adding thousands of additional genomes per month.

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Total investments 203
Average round size 98M
Rounds per year 16.92
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 41
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ROME Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$72M12 Sep 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Thyme Care

Health Care
Medical
$60M21 Aug 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Octave Bioscience

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$32M26 Jul 2023 California, United States

Orbital Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$270M26 Apr 2023 -

Function Oncology

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$28M12 Apr 2023 San Diego, California, United States

iVexSol

Manufacturing
$23M26 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Nest Genomics (YC W22)

Health Care
$8M10 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Asimov

Biotechnology
$175M05 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Idrx

Biotechnology
Life Science
Product Research
$122M02 Aug 2022 -
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