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Astellas Venture Management

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 3.37
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 10
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

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

Astellas Venture Management is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2005. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Menlo Park.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Astellas Venture Management, startups are often financed by MPM Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), SR One. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MPM Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), SR One. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novartis Venture Fund, SR One, MPM Capital.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Astellas Venture Management works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund has no 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical Device, Food and Beverage. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight F2G, Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics, Tizona Therapeutics.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$13M01 Feb 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Shinobi Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$51M12 Dec 2023 -

Mogrify

Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$10M02 Oct 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Solu Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$31M01 Aug 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Avilar Therapeutics

Pharmaceutical
$15M16 Feb 2023 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$8M19 Jan 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Casma Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$46M15 Nov 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

DEM BioPharma

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$70M23 Jun 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Carbon Biosciences

Biotechnology
Product Research
Therapeutics
$38M21 Jun 2022 Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
News
PhoreMost Raises $46M in Series B Financing

– PhoreMost is a Cambridge, England, UK-based biopharmaceutical company.
– The company raised $46m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by BGF, and included new investor – XtalPi Inc., Astellas Venture Management, Trend Investment Group, and o2h ventures.
– Existing investors Parkwalk Advisors, Morningside Ventures, and Jonathan Milner also contributed.

NeoPhore Closes £15.2M Series B Funding Round

– NeoPhore is a Cambridge, UK-based small molecule neoantigen immuno-oncology company.
– Series B funding round closed.
– The round was led by Claris Ventures with participation from 2Invest, 3B Future Health Fund and Astellas Venture Management alongside founding investor the CRT Pioneer Fund.
– The new investment will be used to advance the company’s drug discovery pipeline.

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Total investments 64
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 3.37
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$13M01 Feb 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Shinobi Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$51M12 Dec 2023 -

Mogrify

Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$10M02 Oct 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Solu Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$31M01 Aug 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Avilar Therapeutics

Pharmaceutical
$15M16 Feb 2023 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$8M19 Jan 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Casma Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$46M15 Nov 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

DEM BioPharma

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$70M23 Jun 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Carbon Biosciences

Biotechnology
Product Research
Therapeutics
$38M21 Jun 2022 Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
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