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Atlas Venture

Founders Michiel de Haan

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Total investments 580
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 304
Rounds per year 13.18
Lead investments 81
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 156
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Software
  • Medical
Summary

Atlas Venture is the famous VC, which was founded in 1980. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cambridge. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Michiel de Haan. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Atlas Venture is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Atlas Venture works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Atlas Venture, startups are often financed by Techstars Boston Accelerator, Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sofinnova Investments, Partners Innovation Fund, Flagship Pioneering. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Silicon Valley Bank, SV Health Investors.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Medical. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Isilon Systems, DraftKings, Carbon Black

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sionna Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$182M06 Mar 2024 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Comanche Biopharma

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$75M17 Jan 2024 Concord, Massachusetts, United States

Nvelop Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Medical
$100M25 Sep 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

K36 Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$70M28 Jun 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

AAVantgarde Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$71M06 Jun 2023 Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Pheon Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$68M28 Sep 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Remix Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$70M17 May 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Sionna Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$110M19 Apr 2022 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Be Biopharma

Biotechnology
$130M14 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
News
Obsidian Therapeutics Closes $115M Series B Financing

– Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc. is a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company pioneering engineered cell and gene therapies.
– The company closed a $115m Series B financing.
– The round was led by The Column Group Crossover Fund (TCGX) with participation from RA Capital Management, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Cowen Healthcare Investments, Deep Track Capital, Logos Capital, Pivotal BioVenture Partners, Samsara BioCapital, and Soleus Capital, and existing investors Atlas Venture, Vertex Ventures HC, Amgen Ventures, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to drive Obsidian’s lead tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) program, cytoTIL15, into the clinic and to first clinical data for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. In addition, the company plans to rapidly expand cytoTIL15 into multiple other solid tumor types and to advance its commercial manufacturing build.

Disc Medicine Raises $90M in Series B Funding

– Disc Medicine from Cambridge MA develops therapeutic candidates for hematology.
– Series B $90M round was led by OrbiMed and attracted new investor – Arix Bioscience as well as existing investors Atlas Venture, Novo Holdings and Access Biotechnology.
– The new investment will be aimed at developing the company’s hematology pipeline of therapeutic candidates.

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Total investments 580
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 13.18
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 81
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 156
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sionna Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$182M06 Mar 2024 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Comanche Biopharma

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$75M17 Jan 2024 Concord, Massachusetts, United States

Nvelop Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Medical
$100M25 Sep 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

K36 Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$70M28 Jun 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

AAVantgarde Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$71M06 Jun 2023 Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Pheon Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$68M28 Sep 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Remix Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$70M17 May 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Sionna Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$110M19 Apr 2022 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Be Biopharma

Biotechnology
$130M14 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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