Investments
25Portfolio Exits
5Funds
4About Lucas Venture Group
Lucas Venture Group is a venture capital firm making investments of $250,000-$3,000,000 in companies. The industries that Lucas Venture Group focuses on include social media, consumer web, medical devices, software, analytics and communications infrastructure.
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Latest Lucas Venture Group News
Aug 10, 2022
Prellis Biologics , a San Francisco, CA-based biotherapeutics company, raised $35M in Series C funding. The round, which brings funding to date to $64.5m, was led by Celesta Capital and Avidity Partners with participation from Khosla Ventures, SOSV, True Ventures, and Lucas Venture Group. The company intends to use the funds to expand its proprietary, first-in-class human immune system-based drug discovery and development platform, EXIS™ (Externalized Human Immune System). Led by CEO Michael Nohaile, Prellis Biologics, Inc. utilizes its proprietary, high-resolution bioprinting technology to recreate and engineer human tissues in vitro. Prellis’ proprietary platform Externalized Immune System, EXIS™, precisely reproduces the human immune response through the creation of lymph node organoids (LNOs). With EXIS, Prellis is able to exploit fully-human immune responses for a variety of applications including antibody discovery, immunogenicity assessment and tumor-immune models. Dr. Nohaile joins from Generate Biomedicines and succeeds Prellis Bio founder Dr. Melanie Matheu, who will assume the role of Chief Technology Officer and retain a Board seat. The company will also add two new board members: Lei Meng, Senior Therapeutics Analyst of Avidity Partners, and Nobel Prize winner James Rothman, PhD the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University. Earlier this year, Prellis Bio announced collaboration and licensing option agreements with Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb. FinSMEs 10/08/2022
Lucas Venture Group Investments
25 Investments
Lucas Venture Group has made 25 investments. Their latest investment was in Allermi as part of their Pre-Seed on September 9, 2022.
Lucas Venture Group Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/8/2022 | Pre-Seed | Allermi | $1.25M | Yes | 1 | |
7/6/2022 | Series C | Prellis Biologics | $35M | Yes | 3 | |
9/16/2021 | Seed VC - II | Tailor-ED | Yes | 1 | ||
4/26/2021 | Series B | |||||
11/20/2019 | Seed VC |
Date | 9/8/2022 | 7/6/2022 | 9/16/2021 | 4/26/2021 | 11/20/2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Pre-Seed | Series C | Seed VC - II | Series B | Seed VC |
Company | Allermi | Prellis Biologics | Tailor-ED | ||
Amount | $1.25M | $35M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Lucas Venture Group Portfolio Exits
5 Portfolio Exits
Lucas Venture Group has 5 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Sunbasket on January 31, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1/31/2022 | Merger | 3 | |||
Date | 1/31/2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Merger | ||||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 3 |
Lucas Venture Group Fund History
4 Fund Histories
Lucas Venture Group has 4 funds, including Lucas Venture Group V.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2/24/2016 | Lucas Venture Group V | Early-Stage Venture Capital | Open | $2.02M | 1 |
10/12/2015 | Lucas Venture Group XVII | ||||
10/12/2015 | Lucas Venture Group IV | ||||
9/23/2011 | Lucas Venture Group IX LLC |
Closing Date | 2/24/2016 | 10/12/2015 | 10/12/2015 | 9/23/2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fund | Lucas Venture Group V | Lucas Venture Group XVII | Lucas Venture Group IV | Lucas Venture Group IX LLC |
Fund Type | Early-Stage Venture Capital | |||
Status | Open | |||
Amount | $2.02M | |||
Sources | 1 |
Lucas Venture Group Team
2 Team Members
Lucas Venture Group has 2 team members, including current Founder, Managing Director, Donald A. Lucas.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Donald A. Lucas | Founder, Managing Director | Current | |
Name | Donald A. Lucas | |
|---|---|---|
Work History | ||
Title | Founder, Managing Director | |
Status | Current |
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