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Tag Archives: Venture Capital
Atlas XIV And Reflections On The VC Math Problem
December 5, 2024
Today we announced the closing of Atlas Venture Fund XIV, a $450M investment vehicle focused exclusively on early stage biotech investing. With the closing of Fund XIV, we’re privileged to be able to continue backing innovative new biotech companies for
Biotech Venture Ecosystem: Quick Health Check
January 12, 2024
Biotech feels like it’s got some wind in its sails here at the start of 2024, with positive sentiments from the JPM conference. Indeed, the public equity markets feeling somewhat buoyant for the first time in ages. With the close
Booming VC-Backed Biopharma: Strong Market Despite Pandemic
April 8, 2020
Venture capital is a long investment cycle business, and never before has that been so clear as now in the face of the ongoing COVID pandemic. Even with the unprecedented public equity market volatility, venture investing into private biopharma companies
Another Trophy Quarter For VC-Backed Biotech Funding
April 30, 2018
The flood of capital continues to pour into the private biotech ecosystem, marking the current climate as the most prolific period of investing into the sector of all time. The first three months of 2018 secured yet another “biggest quarter
Atlas Cranks It Up To Eleven: Fund XI
June 29, 2017
Today we announced the closing of Atlas Venture Fund XI, a $350M investment vehicle focused exclusively on early stage biotech investing. Since launching our fundraising process in April, we’ve received a truly humbling level of support and interest in our
Data Snapshot: Venture-Backed Biotech Financing Riding High
April 21, 2015
Biotech venture funding metrics continue at historic highs, highlighting that the robust financing environment in the public markets continues to fuel the private markets as well. Last week the quarterly Thomson Reuters data on venture capital funding came out via
Acquisitions As The Silent Partner In Biotech Liquidity: IPO vs M&A Exit Paths
October 27, 2014
With the biotech IPO window still open for business, and valuations of the recent classes of 2013 and 2014 remaining robust, all eyes have been focused on this part of the value chain. Significant mezzanine pre-IPO rounds are getting done
Early Stage Biotech Venture Scarcity: Fitness, Fear, And Greed
September 22, 2014
The ever-shrinking number of biotech venture capital firms was a common refrain during the 2008-2012 period; it’s true that a large number of firms went under, closed their doors for new investments, or moved into zombie status. I wrote on
Tradeoffs and Timing: IPO vs. M&A Decision Making in Biotech
April 2, 2014
In light of the continued interest in biotech IPOs by the capital markets, there’s probably not a venture-backed biotech boardroom that hasn’t been discussing the merits of going public. Whether warranted or not, taking a company public via an IPO
Biotech IPO Returns: Great, Good, And Not So Good
February 10, 2014
The biotech IPO bonanza appears to be continuing into 2014, with over thirteen offerings already this year. We’re just now completing the busiest two week period in biotech IPOs ever. Another dozen or so companies appear likely to price IPOs
Correlation’s Fresh Look At Venture Capital Returns
November 18, 2013
The broad underperformance of the venture capital asset class during the past decade is widely discussed; there’s a frequently-cited assertion that U.S. venture returns trailed the overall public equity stock market in the 2000s. Few if any published analyses have
Biotech IPOs: The Exit Challenge As Lockups Expire
October 31, 2013
Six months ago the biotech industry was on the verge of a sizzling season for IPOs, and since then, on average, we’ve seen one new biotech IPO per week. Valuations of many of these offerings have been impressive, and this
What’s Behind The Booming Biotech IPO Market
September 23, 2013
Biotech is back with a vengeance in this IPO window. After a decade drought, we’ve witnessed over 30 new biotech offerings this year and more than $2.5B raised – the best IPO market since 2000. In fact, it’s already the
VC-backed Biotech Holding Periods: Tortoise or Hare?
May 8, 2013
Biotech just takes too long, especially when compared to the overnight success of technology ventures, or so the oft-cited criticism of venture-backed biotech’s perceived longer holding period goes. Despite being a well-accepted belief held by most venture professionals, LP’s, and
Favorable 1H2011 Biotech M&A Trends
August 11, 2011
Our friends at HBM Partners just published their quarterly Biotech/Pharma M&A report. Its got some good nuggets of data in it about 1H2011. Although its hard to think about in the midst of the Great August Rollercoaster in the markets,