Advent venture partners

Advent Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early, mid-stage, later stage, buyout, and growth equity investments. The firm prefers to invest in life sciences and technology sectors. In life sciences, it focuses on new drug discovery, enabling technologies, medical technologies, diagnostics, bio pharmaceuticals, medical device research and development, pharmaceuticals, and platform technologies. In technology, the firm focuses on communications, clean technology, digital media & Internet, ecommerce, semiconductor & components, and software & services. It focuses on investments in the United Kingdom, Europe and United States. The firm typically invests between ВЈ5 million ($9.66 million) and ВЈ15 million ($29 million) in its portfolio companies. Its technology investments focus on startups with sales above 4 million ($5.7 million) and which are often seeking external capital for the first time. The firm invests in small minority positions through to full buyouts in a portfolio company. It seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to hold its investment for a period of less than five years. Advent Venture Partners was founded in 1981 and is based in London, United Kingdom.