ARCH Venture Partners

Biotechnology · Venture Capital
130investments
5deals in 12 months
37exits
$1.8Braised by its portfolio in 12 months

Overview

ARCH Venture Partners is a venture capital firm providing seed and early-stage capital to companies built on breakthrough science. It focuses mainly on life sciences and biotechnology, along with physical sciences and technology, and has backed companies such as Illumina, Juno Therapeutics and Grail. The firm was founded in 1986 as a spinout of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory technology transfer effort and is based in Chicago.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
130
56 of them startups
Hiring now
52
3,617 open roles
Deals in 12 months
5
5 as the lead
Rounds in 12 months
16
$1.8B raised
Exits
37
Focusshare of its companies
Health Care 61%Biotechnology 55%Artificial Intelligence 10%Science & Engineering 4%Software 3%Travel & Tourism 1%Internet Services 1%Financial Services 1%
Where its companies are
United States 44%China 2%Iceland 1%United Kingdom 1%Germany 1%Sweden 1%Singapore 1%
Stage of its companies
Pre-seed & seed 29%Series B 29%Series A 29%Series C and later 14%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 130 investments
OratomicVenture round $475M · 1 mo ago · led a round · 18 roles HomewardSeries D $120M · 1 mo ago · 3 roles Light CastVenture round · 2 mo ago Moonwalk Biosciences, Inc.Series B $70M · 2 mo ago LifeMineVenture round $263M · 3 mo ago · 1 role TraseSeed $107M · 4 mo ago · led a round TraseSeed $107M · 4 mo ago · led a round · 9 roles Countable LabsVenture round $26M · 5 mo ago · 3 roles CREATE MedicinesSeries B $122M · 5 mo ago · led a round MoleculentVenture round $20M · 6 mo ago · 2 roles bit.bioVenture round · 7 mo ago VizgenSeries E $47.8M · 10 mo ago
3,617 open roles at 52 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Thermo Fisher Scientific1244 new roles in 30 days PerkinElmer69 new roles in 30 days Illumina50 new roles in 30 days Keenova25 new roles in 30 days Resilience22 new roles in 30 days Alnylam20 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
GV 28 shared F-Prime Capital 9 shared General Catalyst 8 shared EcoR1 Capital 8 shared Omega Funds 8 shared Mubadala Ventures 7 shared Andreessen Horowitz 7 shared Foresite Capital 6 shared Nextech Invest 5 shared Sofinnova Investments 5 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
OrbiMed Foresite Capital SR One EcoR1 Capital Illumina Ventures Atlas Venture Flagship Pioneering RA Capital Management
Sources: 9 rounds in the press that name it

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199 portfolio companies: Atlas Venture, Atento Capital, Atlandventures and 196 more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
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Chicago United States
HQ
Chicago, IL
8755 W. Higgins Rd., Suite 1025, Chicago, IL 60631
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Seattle United States
Regional office
Seattle, WA
7525 SE. 24th St., Suite 560, Mercer Island, Washington 98040
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