VC View: Deal-Making During A Pandemic And 2021 Expectations

Interview With Naseem Amin And Christian Schetter

In the latest instalment of VC Playbook, In Vivo gets to know Arix Bioscience, a relatively young venture capital firm that went public in 2016. Arix has “has many similarities yet some key differences from a typical venture capital firm,” says the management team.

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Arix Bioscience is focused on investing in biotech companies, but the VC has a wide footprint. Looking at Arix’s historic investments, there is a greater concentration in the US than one would expect from a venture capital firm headquartered in London, UK. Although Arix is a newer player in the biotech investment arena, its portfolio includes companies that are transitioning through the development life cycle.

“We have had four companies in the public portfolio, – companies that have gone through the IPO process – and the remaining are private companies,” Naseem Amin, executive chair of...

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