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Eli Lilly

Founders Eli Lilly

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Total investments 77
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$47M
Portfolio companies 67
Rounds per year 0.52
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 17
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

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

Eli Lilly appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1876. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Indianapolis. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Eli Lilly performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Eli Lilly, startups are often financed by Skyline Ventures, SV Health Investors, Qiming Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Johnson & Johnson Innovation, ARCH Venture Partners, Watson Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RTW Investments LLC, Zesiger Capital, Unilever Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Immunocore, Perlegen Sciences, ImmunoGen. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Medical. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Firefly Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
$94M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

PRISM BioLab

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$13M24 Jan 2024 Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

UpDoc

Hospital
05 Jan 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Alto Neuroscience

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Neuroscience
$45M21 Nov 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

SomaServe

$27M13 Nov 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

OrsoBio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$60M07 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Laverock Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$18M28 Sep 2023 -

Sitryx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$39M27 Sep 2023 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Mariana Oncology

Bioinformatics
Biometrics
Biopharma
Biotechnology
$175M07 Sep 2023 -
News
Founded last year, Mozart Therapeutics lands $55M to develop therapies for celiac and other diseases

– Mozart Therapeutics, a Seattle-based biotech startup, raised $55m funding.
– The round was led by ARCH Venture Partners along with Sofinnova Partners.
– Other backers include MRL Ventures Fund from Merck, Leaps by Bayer, and Eli Lilly & Company.

GenEdit Announces Series A Financing and Provides Research Update at TIDES 2021

– GenEdit has closed a $26m Series A financing.
– New investors include Eli Lilly, KTB Network, Company K Partners, Korea Investment Partners, DAYLI Partners, KB Investment, IMM Investment, and TIMEFOLIO Asset Management.
– The funding will support the further development of GenEdit’s NanoGalaxy™ platform of non-viral, non-lipid polymer nanoparticles, and the selection for clinical development of therapeutic candidates targeting diseases of the nervous system.

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Total investments 77
Average round size 47M
Rounds per year 0.52
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Firefly Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
$94M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

PRISM BioLab

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$13M24 Jan 2024 Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

UpDoc

Hospital
05 Jan 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Alto Neuroscience

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Neuroscience
$45M21 Nov 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

SomaServe

$27M13 Nov 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

OrsoBio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$60M07 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Laverock Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$18M28 Sep 2023 -

Sitryx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$39M27 Sep 2023 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Mariana Oncology

Bioinformatics
Biometrics
Biopharma
Biotechnology
$175M07 Sep 2023 -
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