Perceptive Advisors, a NYC-based investment management firm focused on the life sciences sector, closed Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund II, LP, at $515m, to further its early-stage life sciences platform.
PXV Fund II includes existing investors from the inaugural fund, new investors including top-tier asset managers, endowments, foundations, family offices, and notable individual investors, and all of the PXV Fund II Partners.
The close of PXV Fund II more than triples assets under management to $725m in less than two years since the closing of the inaugural PXV Fund I, which launched Perceptive’s early-stage venture fund strategy.
The PXV Fund strategy complements Perceptive Advisors’ Life Sciences Fund (hedge fund) and Credit Opportunities Funds as it will be solely focused on early-stage venture capital and expects to be the sole or predominant lead investor in Series A financings in the range of $20-40m with capacity to participate in subsequent Series B financings.