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Investments

571

Portfolio Exits

131

Funds

15

Partners & Customers

2

Service Providers

1

About Domain Associates

Founded in 1985, Domain was one of the first venture capital firms to exclusively invest in the life sciences sector. Domain has been involved in the formation of more than 260 companies. Today, with more than $2.7 billion in capital raised, Domain is a proven healthcare venture capital leader with solid investment returns from companies built to advance human health. Domain's primary investment areas are pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical devices. The firm also evaluates and opportunistically invests in evolving sectors of the life sciences industry, such as healthcare IT, and technologies addressing specific healthcare issues, such as healthcare economics.

Headquarters Location

One Palmer Square Suite 515

Princeton, New Jersey, 08542,

United States

609-683-5656

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Exalys Launches With $15M to Treat Postoperative Delirium & More

Jul 20, 2020

Exalys Launches With $15M to Treat Postoperative Delirium & More Venture capitalists like nothing more than pattern matching, and Domain Associates has identified one it especially prefers: licensing drug candidates from a Japanese biopharma and setting up a US company to move it through testing until Big Pharma starts nosing around. It’s a roadmap the VC firm, which has offices in San Diego and Princeton, NJ, is looking to again follow with its latest investment: a $15 million Series A financing round that Domain and fledgling firm Catalys Pacific pulled together to launch Exalys Therapeutics. The new San Diego-based biotech plans to move ahead three potential drug candidates licensed from Japan’s Eisai that target EP4, a known cancer target that also plays a role in neuroinflammation. Domain and Catalys, which launched in 2019 with offices in Japan and in San Francisco, co-led the financing round for Exalys. Postoperative delirium is the first indication Exalys plans to go after. A complication that can follow surgery, the incidence of which increases as patients age, this form of delirium can prolong hospitalization, cause or accelerate cognitive decline, and result in a worsening quality of life. “We’re essentially taking what would be considered a preventive approach, not treating it once delirium manifests, but instead trying to prevent postoperative delirium from ever taking hold in a patient,” president and CEO Rick Orr told Xconomy. Exalys is evaluating which of the Eisai candidates to move ahead first, and plans to ask the FDA for permission to start human testing of the one it selects as its lead in the second half of 2021, he said. The potential treatment would be given daily by mouth for a day or two prior to surgery, then for up to week afterward. The idea is to tamp down the activity of EP4 during and after the procedure. “The surgical procedure is the trigger that would cause the neuroinflammatory response, so you’d want to have the drug on board, so to speak, and present during the time of surgery so it can have an impact as EP4 starts to have an effect, and you want to continue having that drug present,” Orr said. “Postoperative delirium in most patients is experienced for three to four days following surgery, so it’s not just a brief episode that lasts for a few hours and goes away, but typically lasts for several days.” In clinical trials the company plans to focus on patients age 65 and older who are slated for surgical procedures that are more likely to lead to an episode of postoperative delirium, he says. The condition is likelier to arise following major operations, such as cardiac or abdominal surgery, rather than less risky procedures. The company also plans to use biomarkers to identify patients most likely to benefit. Exalys is also considering other neuroinflammatory conditions the EP4 antagonists could potentially address. Orr has worked with Domain partners Eckard Weber and Dennis Podlesak for nearly 20 years. Their first foray was at Domain-backed Peninsula Pharmaceuticals, where Podlesak was CEO and Orr general counsel. Peninsula licensed assets from Japan’s Shionogi and developed them until Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ) came calling. J&J acquired the firm for $245 million in 2005. Orr and Podlesak soon reunited in the same respective roles at Cerexa Pharmaceuticals, which moved ahead a drug candidate licensed from Takeda Pharmaceutical (NYSE: TAK ) until it was snapped up by Forest Laboratories in 2006 for $480 million. Weber was on the board. After the Cerexa acquisition Podlesak joined Domain, and when he and Weber launched antibiotics developer Calixa to develop a drug candidate from Astellas Pharma, Orr joined as chief operating officer. Calixa was bought in 2009 by Cubist Pharmaceutics, which later merged with Merck (NYSE: MRK ). “We’ve got a long history of working together, building companies, successfully advancing compounds and ultimately transacting those companies,” Orr said. “In all of those companies what’s important to me, and I think to Dennis and Eckard as well, is that they went on to successful product approvals, so it’s good to see that you’ve selected sound science that is sufficiently interesting to large pharma that they pick it up and continue to advance the compounds.” Most recently Orr was head of pain drug developer Adynxx (NASDAQ: ADYX ), another Domain-backed company, which last year went public via reverse merger with Alliqua BioMedical. Adynxx founder and chief scientific officer Julien Mamet and Bill Martin, who handled corporate development, marketing, and commercial strategy, also made the move to Exalys, Mamet as CSO and Martin as executive vice president, corporate development and operations. The four-person operation will roughly double its headcount over the next 12 to 18 months, Orr said. Image: iStock/Motortion Sarah de Crescenzo is an Xconomy editor based in San Diego. You can reach her at sdecrescenzo@xconomy.com. Follow @sarahdc

Domain Associates Investments

571 Investments

Domain Associates has made 571 investments. Their latest investment was in Epic Sciences as part of their Series G on April 4, 2023.

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Domain Associates Portfolio Exits

131 Portfolio Exits

Domain Associates has 131 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was OmniOme on July 20, 2021.

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Exit

Companies

Valuation
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Acquirer

Sources

7/20/2021

Acquired

$99M

7

7/16/2021

IPO

$99M

Public

1

4/22/2021

IPO

$99M

Public

10

12/16/2020

Acquired

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$99M

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10

10/16/2019

Acq - P2P

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$99M

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10

Date

7/20/2021

7/16/2021

4/22/2021

12/16/2020

10/16/2019

Exit

Acquired

IPO

IPO

Acquired

Acq - P2P

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Acquirer

Public

Public

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Sources

7

1

10

10

10

Domain Associates Acquisitions

1 Acquisition

Domain Associates acquired 1 company. Their latest acquisition was Cardiodynamics International Corporation on June 21, 1999.

Date

Investment Stage

Companies

Valuation
Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model.

Total Funding

Note

Sources

6/21/1999

Other Venture Capital

$99M

$23.5M

Acquired

Date

6/21/1999

Investment Stage

Other Venture Capital

Companies

Valuation

$99M

Total Funding

$23.5M

Note

Acquired

Sources

Domain Associates Fund History

15 Fund Histories

Domain Associates has 15 funds, including Domain Partners IX.

Closing Date

Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

Sources

12/7/2016

Domain Partners IX

Early-Stage Venture Capital

Open

$163.63M

3

9/30/2009

DP VIII Associates LP

Multi-Stage Venture Capital

Closed

$4M

1

6/18/2009

Domain Partners VIII

Multi-Stage Venture Capital

Closed

$371.07M

1

12/31/2006

DP VII Associates LP

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$99M

10

8/24/2006

Domain Partners VII

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$99M

10

Closing Date

12/7/2016

9/30/2009

6/18/2009

12/31/2006

8/24/2006

Fund

Domain Partners IX

DP VIII Associates LP

Domain Partners VIII

DP VII Associates LP

Domain Partners VII

Fund Type

Early-Stage Venture Capital

Multi-Stage Venture Capital

Multi-Stage Venture Capital

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Status

Open

Closed

Closed

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Amount

$163.63M

$4M

$371.07M

$99M

$99M

Sources

3

1

1

10

10

Domain Associates Partners & Customers

2 Partners and customers

Domain Associates has 2 strategic partners and customers. Domain Associates recently partnered with CentralNic on February 2, 2014.

Date

Type

Business Partner

Country

News Snippet

Sources

2/18/2014

Vendor

United Kingdom

CentralNic Inks Deal With Domain Venture Partners For Domain Registration Services.

LONDON - CentralNic PLC said Tuesday that it had inked an agreement with Domain Venture Partners to act as a registry service provider for Domain Venture Partners ' investment fund DVP II .

1

3/13/2013

Partner

China

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Date

2/18/2014

3/13/2013

Type

Vendor

Partner

Business Partner

Country

United Kingdom

China

News Snippet

CentralNic Inks Deal With Domain Venture Partners For Domain Registration Services.

LONDON - CentralNic PLC said Tuesday that it had inked an agreement with Domain Venture Partners to act as a registry service provider for Domain Venture Partners ' investment fund DVP II .

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Domain Associates Service Providers

1 Service Provider

Domain Associates has 1 service provider relationship

Service Provider

Associated Rounds

Provider Type

Service Type

Counsel

Service Provider

Associated Rounds

Provider Type

Counsel

Service Type

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Domain Associates Team

3 Team Members

Domain Associates has 3 team members, including current Controller, Lisa Kraeutler.

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Work History

Title

Status

Lisa Kraeutler

Controller

Current

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