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Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners Iii, L.P.'s $37.7M purchase of LYCA

Lycia Therapeutics, Inc. · 10% Owner · filed Oct 27, 2026. Opened Oct 27, 2026, last checked Oct 28, 2026. Waiting for the 7-day result; next check Nov 3, 2026.

Reported value$37.7M2,045,440 shares at $18.41
For this personUnusual1 buy · 0 sales on file
Similar buys beat S&P46%9,298 cases · all buys 46%

Worth a closer look

  • Open-market purchase with their own money (Form 4 code P), not a grant or option exercise.
  • Raised their own holding by 43%.

Reasons for caution

  • Bought by a 10% owner or investment firm, whose reasons often differ from an executive's.
  • Held indirectly (a trust, fund or family entity), so the economic owner isn't only the named insider.
  • Similar past buys beat the S&P 500 only 46% of the time (9,298 cases); the typical one trailed it by 1.3%.

What happened after this filing

7 days Pending due Nov 3
30 days Pending due Nov 26
90 days Pending due Jan 25

What we couldn't check

  • Why they traded. Filings don't say, and we don't guess.
  • Company news after the filing, and any private terms.
Summary

Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners Iii, L.P. (a 10% owner) bought $38M of LYCA at about $18.41 between Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, reported to the SEC on Oct 27, 2026. Buys like this beat the S&P 500 46% of the time since 2020, against 46% for all insider buys. We found 2 points that make it worth a closer look and 3 reasons for caution. History, not a prediction.

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Written by fixed rules from SEC filings and our measured history, not by an AI model. Public data only. History, not a prediction, and not investment advice.

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