Phillips: Firm targets lead positions with roughly $1M check size
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Investor Mark Phillips outlines his fund's typical check size and strategy during a diligence conversation with Science On Call.
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“Where we are today from a fund perspective is we're really trying to take lead positions. And if we were to come in and the check size we're writing right now is probably about a million bucks into an opportunity like this.”
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