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ARTICLE | Finance

Asset renaissance

How Medicxi increases Phase II successes with less capital

February 8, 2016 8:00 AM UTC

The former life sciences team from Index Ventures has set up shop as Medicxi Ventures with a heavily oversubscribed new fund, and an investment model that has so far scored it a 100% success rate in Phase II readouts while halving the capital needed to get there.

Medicxi is taking with it the 12-person life sciences team from Index, the remaining capital from the almost fully invested Index Ventures Life VI fund, and a portfolio of about 40 life sciences companies...