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Medicxi Ventures–JnJ: investment, 201907 closing totalling €400m of Medicxi III fund incl cornerstone investors + Novartis + JJDC

 

Period Period 2019-07-19
Organisation Money taker Medicxi III fund
Products Product Medicxi III fund
  Product 2 LIFE SCIENCES
Index term Index term Medicxi Ventures–SEVERAL: investment, 201907 closing €400m of Medicxi III fund incl cornerstone investors + Novartis + JJDC
     

Medicxi Ventures. (7/19/19). "Press Release: Medicxi Closes a New €400m Fund (Medicxi III) to Power the Next Wave of Biopharma Entrepreneurs and Drug Hunters". London, Geneva & Jersey.

> €400m Medicxi III fund, closed in just six weeks, and brings the total funds raised by Medicxi in the last three years to over $1b

> Medicxi III will invest across the full healthcare continuum, from discovery to late stage clinical assets, empowering ambitious scientific entrepreneurs and drug hunters

> Novartis and Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. are returning cornerstone investors, with new investors including established hospital foundations and medical institutions


Leading European life sciences investment firm Medicxi today announces the closing of Medicxi III, a new €400 million fund. This brings the total amount raised by Medicxi in the last three years to over $1 billion.

From this single fund, Medicxi will invest in early and late stage biopharma companies across the full healthcare continuum from discovery to late stage clinical assets. Cornerstone strategic investors in Medicxi III are Novartis and Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), both of whom have backed Medicxi in earlier funds. The fund also includes all of the institutional limited partners that previously invested in Medicxi's funds, as well as several new investors, including established hospital foundations and medical institutions.

Medicxi III will be supported by the Medicxi Scientific Advisory Board, which benefits from the scientific and commercial expertise of senior executives from Novartis, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline and Verily (an Alphabet company).

The new fund will continue to focus on Medicxi's pioneering 'asset-centric' investment model as well as investing in fully integrated private companies with an underlying platform and/or a pipeline of assets that Medicxi believes can deliver licensed pharmaceutical products to satisfy unmet medical needs.

The size of the fund and the speed with which it was closed reflects the continued maturity of the life sciences sector across Europe, with investors now prioritizing their attention and support for emerging biopharma companies and their efforts to translate breakthrough science into pipelines of new drugs.

Francesco De Rubertis, co-founder and Partner at Medicxi, said: "Medicxi III is one of the largest biotech funds in Europe and consolidates Medicxi's position as a key operating platform for scientific entrepreneurs and drug hunters. We are grateful to our LPs who made it possible to get the fund closed within only a few weeks."


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Enquiries:

Medicxi
Ursula Lucas +41 22 707 8639
ursula@medicxi.com

Instinctif Partners (International media)
Sue Charles / Alex Bannister / Phil Marriage +44 20 7866 7863
medicxi@instinctif.com

VEITHing Spirit (Swiss media)
Marcus Veith +41 22 78 65 603 Office / +41 79 20 75 111 Cellphone
marcus@vspirit.ch


Notes to Editors


About Medicxi

Medicxi is an international investment firm with the mission to create and invest in companies across the full healthcare continuum. Medicxi was established by the former Index Ventures life sciences team and invests in both early stage and late stage therapeutics with a product vision that can fulfill a clear unmet medical need. GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc., Novartis and Verily (an Alphabet company) are investors in Medicxi funds.

Medicxi's team has been investing in life sciences for over 20 years. Globally, it has invested in 89 innovative biopharma companies and achieved 32 exits through IPO and M&A, including Genmab (NASDAQ Copenhagen: GEN), PanGenetics (sold to AbbVie), Cellzome (sold to GSK), Micromet (sold to Amgen), Molecular Partners (SWX: MOLN), XO1 (sold to Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Minerva Neurosciences (NASDAQ: NERV), Padlock Therapeutics (sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb), Gadeta (structured transaction with Gilead), Impact Biomedicines (sold to Celgene) and Adaptive Biotechnologies (NASDAQ: ADPT).

Please see https://www.medicxi.com/ for more information.

   
Record changed: 2020-07-08

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