Why Have a Biotech Venture Fund?

By Paul Kedrosky · Tuesday, March 20, 2007 ·
I was playing with some CalPERS venture investing data today while on planes. I decided to split the data into pre-2004 vintage non-biotech and biotech funds. The results were as follows:

Multiple
IRR
Biotech
0.33
1.9%
Non-bio
0.58
3.0%
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