Novartis Venture Fund

Novartis Venture Fund

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Overview

Novartis Venture Fund's primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. They balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics, or drug delivery systems. In their investments, they look for unmet needs and clinical impact, novel proprietary science, an understanding of mechanism, management and board experience, and capital efficiency in the program.

Novartis Venture Fund prefers to have their initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company's progress. Their approach involves larger focused investments, with anticipation of total investments up to USD 30 to 50 million per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100,000 USD to get started. They plan to increase their activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participating in larger syndicates.

Highlights

Founded

1996

Industry

Venture Capital

Employees

11-50

Investment

256

Lead Investment

70

Exits

71

Stages

Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Private Equity

Investor Type

Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Capital

Location

Switzerland, Europe

Contact Information

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Novartis Venture Fund, established in 1996 and headquartered in Switzerland, Europe., specializes in Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Private Equity investments across Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance, Medical, FinTech, Business Development, Education. The organization boasts a portfolio of 256 investments, with an average round size of $33.5M and 71 successful exits. Their recent investments include Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Skyline Ventures, Three Arch Partners, TVM Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners. The highest investment round they participated in was $829.5B. Among their most notable exits are Sirtris Pharmaceuticals and Skyline Ventures. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Lauren Silverman

Managing Director

imagePlace Anja König

Anja König

Global Head Novartis Venture Fund

imagePlace Prof. Christoph A. Meier

Prof. Christoph A. Meier

Board of Director

imagePlace Prof. Michel Aguet

Prof. Michel Aguet

Board of Director

imagePlace Harry Kirsch

Harry Kirsch

Chief Financial Officer

imagePlace Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas

Chairman, Option Fund

Investment portfolio

Novartis Venture Fund has made 256 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 11, 2024, when FundaMental Pharma raised $2.9M.

Novartis Venture Fund has made 41 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Mar 15, 2023, when Mediar Therapeutics raised $85.0M.

investments

256

Diversity investments

41

Lead investments

70

Number of exits

71

Investments

256

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Jan 29, 2024
Enterprise Therapeutics Enterprise Therapeutics
Health Care33.1M
Mar 20, 2024
Capstan Therapeutics Capstan Therapeutics
Biotechnology175.0M
Apr 11, 2024
FundaMental Pharma FundaMental Pharma
Health Care2.9M
Jun 25, 2024--82.0M

Exits

71

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

256

Investors

0

Funds

3

Funding Rounds

256

Novartis Venture Fund has raised 256 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 25, 2024 from a Series A - Exsilio Therapeutics round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Jan 29, 2024
Series B - Enterprise Therapeutics Series B - Enterprise Therapeutics
-33.1M-
Mar 20, 2024
Series B - Capstan Therapeutics Series B - Capstan Therapeutics
-175.0M-
Apr 11, 2024
Seed Round - FundaMental Pharma Seed Round - FundaMental Pharma
-2.9M-
Jun 25, 2024
Series A - Exsilio Therapeutics Series A - Exsilio Therapeutics
-82.0M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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