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Northpond Ventures

Founders Michael Rubin Sharon Kedar

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Total investments 113
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 68
Rounds per year 18.83
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

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

In 2018 was created Northpond Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bethesda.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Northpond Ventures, startups are often financed by ARCH Venture Partners, Sands Capital Ventures, Connecticut Innovations. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sands Capital Ventures, Think.Health, Spring Mountain Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by National Cancer Institute SBIR Development Center, Think.Health, Spring Mountain Capital.

The real fund results show that this VC is 64 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The current fund was established by Michael Rubin, Sharon Kedar. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ultivue, 908 Devices, Candel Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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

Totus Medicines

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
$66M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Elephas Biosciences

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$55M30 Nov 2023 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Aro Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$41M28 Nov 2023 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Kyverna Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$60M03 Aug 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Octave Bioscience

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

Faro Health

Health Care
Software
$20M08 Feb 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Garuda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$62M07 Feb 2023 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Slingshot Biosciences

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$11M06 Feb 2023 Emeryville, California, United States

Molecule

Blockchain
Health Care
Life Science
Software
$7M01 Dec 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
News
SimBioSys Raises $15 Million Series A to Develop the Future of Precision Cancer Care

– SimBioSys announced it raised $15m in Series A funding to accelerate the development and commercialization of its TumorScope software platform.
– The company’s novel, simulation-based, precision medicine platform enables individualized treatment planning for cancer patients.
– This Series A was co-led by Genoa Ventures and Northpond Ventures, with participation from AV8 Ventures, Heritage Medical Group, and Mayo Clinic.
– Existing investors and founders also participated in this financing round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $21m.
– In the first half of 2021, SimBioSys tripled its headcount, bringing in expert clinicians, scientists, and executives from the life sciences industry.

Carlyle and Leading Healthcare-Focused Venture Funds Announce Strategic Growth Investment of up to $430 Million in Saama

– Saama technologies announced a strategic growth investment and will be acquired by Carlyle.
– Saama’s intelligent Life Science Analytics Cloud (LSAC) is used by over 50 pharma and biotech companies on more than 1,500 studies.
– As an end-to-end platform, LSAC provides a unified approach to clinical trial data management and analytics.
– Carlyle has made a strategic growth investment and will acquire a majority stake in the Company.
– A broad co-investor group with several healthcare-focused venture funds, including Amgen Ventures, Intermountain Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, McKesson Ventures, Northpond Ventures, Pfizer Ventures, and Population Health Partners, will be investing alongside Carlyle.

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Total investments 113
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 18.83
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Totus Medicines

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
$66M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Elephas Biosciences

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$55M30 Nov 2023 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Aro Biotherapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$41M28 Nov 2023 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Kyverna Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$60M03 Aug 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Octave Bioscience

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

Faro Health

Health Care
Software
$20M08 Feb 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Garuda Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$62M07 Feb 2023 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Slingshot Biosciences

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$11M06 Feb 2023 Emeryville, California, United States

Molecule

Blockchain
Health Care
Life Science
Software
$7M01 Dec 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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