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OrbiMed’s Big Fund Signals A Potential Return To Health For VCs

 
• By Stacy Lawrence

The largest dedicated health care investor has closed a huge new fund, which came almost entirely from existing investors. OrbiMed isn’t the only firm capitalizing on the robust biotech IPO market. A few VCs are starting to take gains from IPO winners through secondary offerings.

The $735 million venture fund that OrbiMed Advisors just closed might be the start of a broad recovery for life sciences venture capital.

Not that OrbiMed, the largest dedicated health care investor with more than $8 billion under management, has struggled. But the...

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