A Thriving Home for Investment
An active, interwoven ecosystem of startups, entrepreneurs, and local and global venture capital, makes the Research Triangle Region a great place for businesses to start and grow.
The region’s universities, tech companies, and contract research organizations (CROs) ensure that the investment landscape is always growing and expanding. Over the past 10 years, nearly 500 venture capital deals have a combined value of nearly $6 billion.
Last year alone, Triangle startups raised $2 billion on over 150 deals, accounting for 90% of the funding and 77% of deals in the state.
Investor Highlights
Alexandria Venture Investments
One of the most active venture capital firms in the region, Alexandria Venture Investments seeks to create clusters and invest in companies focused on advancing human health. Located in the Research Triangle Park, Alexandria is well-connected to the region’s resources and aware of the challenges and opportunities facing startups in the life science, Agtech and technology industries. Venture investments include Biopharma, Diagnostics, Research Tools, AgTech and Technology.
Part of Alexandria Venture Investments, the Alexandria Seed Capital is a new model created to catalyze life science and Agtech seed-stage investment. In this model, partners are not required to commit capital in a typical fund model, but are offered allocations to a range of deals that Alexandria chooses to invest in. This gives partners the options to choose what ventures they want to support.
- Most Active Biopharma Investor by new deal volume in 2017-2018, as recognized by Silicon Valley Bank
- #1 venture capital investor in the healthcare sector by U.S.-based deal volume in 2018, as recognized by Forbes
- $892M Book Value (as of December 31, 2018)
- 140+ Direct Private Investments
- 45+ IPO Exits between 2013 and 2018
- 10+ M&A Exits between 2013 and 2018
Hatteras Venture Partners
Hatteras Venture Partners (HVP) is a venture capital firm based in Durham, N.C. with a focus on seed and early-stage opportunities across the healthcare continuum from transformational therapies to disruptive technologies. The firm has more than $550 million in capital commitments under management and has deployed five funds. As the most active venture capital firm in the region, HVP invested in five Triangle Region companies in 2018.
In 2019, HVP announced the first closing of Hatteras Venture Partners VI, LP (HVP VI), with $94 million in deployable capital toward an ultimate target fund size of $200 million. The investment firm continues to invest in our region, with the recent announcement of backing life science company Shattuck Labs, which is expected to raise $202 million in its IPO.
Successful regional companies in previous funds include:
- G1 Therapeutics
- StrideBio
- NeuroTronik, Inc.
- Bivarus, Inc.
CED Innovators Report
Read more about the record-setting investments made in North Carolina and the Research Triangle Region in this year's Innovators Report
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