Is biotech venture capital investing more to return less?

At Sunstone we continue to track risk-adjusted return multiples (adjusted for contingent payments) versus the total capital invested in private therapeutic companies prior to M&A exits. When looking at the median trends over the past 15 years, the inflection...

An update on M&A returns for biotech venture capital

Back in in 2019 Sunstone started sharing studies of European venture capital funded successes – i.e. M&A transactions. In 2021 we started adding US M&A’s to the data and later the same year we evaluated to which extent an IPO impacted the observations made....

Biotech ecosystem contributors!

Biotech ecosystem contributors! In our previous post, we discussed the importance of local investors and how, in a Danish context, they contribute to identifying and scaling local and regional therapeutic innovation. However, not all investors are born equal –...

Do local investors make a difference?

Do local investors make a difference? E-mail outreach, online meetings and digital data rooms have become a given when trying to finance a therapeutic innovation! So, do local or regional anchor investors matter when developing a bioinnovation ecosystem? If the local...

Seed & Series A in Denmark

Financing a Danish Biotech company has apparently never been more challenging. Based on feedback from partnering meetings in 2025 it seems that raising Series A financing has become an unprecedented challenge. However, when looking at the available data on the...