What does Novo Nordisk invest in?
Novo Nordisk invests most often at Series C and Series A (50% of the rounds on record).
Last cheque observed Apr 2010. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.
QuietCorporate VC
6 rounds on record
Mostly Series C and Series A: 50% of its rounds
1 exits from the portfolio
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
1 round
2 rounds
1 round
1 round
1 round
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
We hold 9 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
Acquisitions by the firm itself
4 episodes naming Novo Nordisk in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

Rerun: Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen CEO of Novo Nordisk
MentionsNovo Nordisk

Novo Holdings: Controlling Shareholder of Novo Nordisk, Europe's Most Valuable Company - With CEO, Kasim Kutay
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Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
MentionsNovo Nordisk

Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen CEO of Novo Nordisk
MentionsNovo Nordisk

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Novo Nordisk invests most often at Series C and Series A (50% of the rounds on record).
6 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Apr 2010.
The median round it joins is $21M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 6 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (50%), Germany (33%) and France (17%).
No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Apr 2010.
Novo Nordisk is a corporate VC.
Novo Nordisk was founded in 1923.
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