Total: $76.5M

Company
(Symbol)#
(M)

Type Of Financing

Number Of Shares, Units Or Warrants

Amount Raised (M)

Investors; Placement Agents; Details
(Date)@


Alteon Inc. 
(AMEX:ALT)

Private placement of common stock

2.3S

$7.7

Alteon raised about $7.7M with the sale of 2.3M shares at $3.50 per share to institutional investors (3/26)

 

Biopure Corp. 
(BPUR)

Private placement of common stock and warrants

5.5S and W
for 1.15S

$13.4

Biopure raised $13.4M selling 5.5M shares at $2.42 apiece; for each five shares purchased, investors also received one warrant to purchase one share (3/25)

 

Boston Life 
Sciences Inc.
(BLSI)

Private placement of common stock

10S

$10

Boston Life Sciences raised $10M in the private placement with a small group of individual investors (3/13)

 

Cypress
Bioscience
Inc.
(CYPB)

Private placement of shares and warrants

4S and W for 1S

$10.3

Cypress raised $10.3M in the private placement (3/27)

 

Dyax Corp. 
(DYAX) 

Private placement of common stock

4.7S

$8.8

Dyax raised $8.8M through the sale of about 4.7M shares to selected institutional and other accredited investors; Lancet Capital and Federated Kaufman Fund led the offering; Pacific Growth Equities LLC acted as exclusive placement agent (3/14)

 

Genta Inc.
(GNTA)

Credit facility

N/A

--

Genta received a $40M line of credit from Aventis related to the development of Genasense (3/17)

 

Orphan
Medical Inc.
(ORPH)

Revolving line of credit

N/A

--

Orphan Medical obtained a revolving line of credit with Silicon Valley Bank; the line of credit provides the lesser of $3.5M or 75% of qualifying assets and carries an interest rate on borrowings at the prime rate plus 2% (3/31)

 

Palatin Technologies 
Inc. (AMEX:PTN)

Private placement of common stock

13.4S

$19

Palatin raised $19M through the sale of 13.4M shares; investors were ProQuest LLC, Federated Kaufmann Funds, Albert Fried & Co., Lurie Investments, Biotechnology Value Fund LP and Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. (3/31)

 

Pharmos Corp. 
(PARS)

Private placement of common stock and warrants

N/A

$4.3

Pharmos raised $4.3M in the private placement with a group of institutional investors (3/5)

 

Protein 
Polymer
 
Technologies
Inc.
(OTC BB: PPTI)

Private placement of preferred stock

0.03S

$3

Protein Polymer raised about $3M through the sale of 30,050 shares of Series I preferred stock to a small group of institutional and accredited investors (3/27)

 


Notes:

This chart does not include real estate or manufacturing plant financings.

# Unless otherwise indicated, shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange.

@ Dates refer to the date of the press release.

N/A = Not available, applicable or reported.

AMEX = American Stock Exchange; OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board; TSE = Toronto Stock Exchange