Company |
Location |
Amount (US$M) |
Round |
Details |
Date |
Total: $1,315.7M | |||||
ADC Therapeutics SA |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
$200.00 |
N/A |
$200M in a private round from existing and new investors, including Auven Therapeutics, Redmile, the Wild Family Office and Astrazeneca plc |
10/23/17 |
Adgero Biopharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. |
Princeton, N.J. |
$3.40 |
N/A |
Warrant tender offer to exercise certain categories of existing warrants; it issued 1.36M shares of common stock and raised total gross proceeds from the warrant exercises of approximately $3.4M |
10/2/17 |
Antabio SAS |
Labege, France |
$8.60 |
Series A |
€7.3M (US$8.6M) series A financing with subscriptions from investment funds IXO Private Equity, Irdi Soridec Gestion, Galia Gestion and from the company's historical investors, including former president of OM Pharma, Christophe Ricard |
10/17/17 |
Appili Therapeutics Inc. |
Halifax, Nova Scotia |
$3.00 |
N/A |
$3M in a private placement financing, which included investments from new and current investors including Innovacorp, Nova Scotia's early stage venture capital organization |
10/24/17 |
Azura Ophthalmics Ltd. |
Tel Aviv, Israel |
$16.00 |
Series B |
$16M in a series B round led by a syndicate of Orbimed, TPG Biotech and Brandon Capital's Medical Research Commercialisation Fund, with participation from existing investor Ganot Capital |
10/11/17 |
Cullinan Oncology LLC |
Cambridge, Mass. |
$150.00 |
Series A |
$150M series A co-led by MPM Capital and F2 Ventures |
10/4/17 |
Cydan |
Cambridge, Mass. |
$34.00 |
N/A |
$34M from new investor Longitude Capital, and existing investor, New Enterprise Associates, which led the round, along with Pfizer Venture Investments, Alexandria Venture Investments and Lundbeckfond Ventures |
10/18/17 |
Forty Seven Inc. |
Menlo Park, Calif. |
$75.00 |
Series B |
$75M series B financing led by new investor Wellington Management Company LLP with participation from existing investors Clarus, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and GV |
10/19/17 |
Gemini Therapeutics Inc. |
Cambridge, Mass. |
$42.50 |
Series A |
$42.5M series A round co-led by Atlas Venture, Lightstone Ventures and Orbimed |
10/18/17 |
Harmony Biosciences LLC |
Plymouth Meeting, Pa. |
$270.00 |
N/A |
$270M in an equity financing from Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Co., HBM Healthcare Investments, Vivo Capital, Venbio Partners, Novo Holdings and Nan Fung Life Sciences |
10/9/17 |
Immatics AG |
Tuebingen, Germany |
$58.00 |
Series E |
$58M in a series E round that brought in Amgen Inc. as a new investor |
10/5/17 |
Impact Biomedicines |
San Diego |
$22.50 |
Series A |
$22.5M series A financing from Medicxi |
10/16/17 |
Inezyne Technologies Inc. |
Tampa, Fla. |
$10.00 |
Series A |
$10M series A preferred round led by existing investor Gaston Capital Healthcare Fund. The company has two clinical-stage programs: IT-139, a cancer resistance pathway (CRP) inhibitor for the treatment of pancreatic, gastric and BRAF-mutated cancers (including BRAF-mutated melanoma, lung cancer and thyroid cancer) in combination with existing anti-cancer therapies, and IT-141, a topoisomerase I (TOP-I) inhibitor for the treatment of colorectal and breast cancers. |
10/9/17 |
Inflarx GmbH |
Jena, Germany |
$55.00 |
Series D |
$30M in a series D round from Bain Capital Life Sciences LP, Cormorant Asset Management LLC and RA Capital Management LLC, plus additional undisclosed investors; the transaction also involved a $25M secondary share sale |
10/16/17 |
KSQ Therapeutics |
Cambridge, Mass. |
$76.00 |
Series A |
$76M in two financing rounds, with the latest led by Flagship Pioneering and joined by founding investor Polaris Partners, Arch Venture Partners and Alexandria Equities |
10/3/17 |
Kymera Therapeutics LLC |
Cambridge, Mass. |
$30.00 |
Series A |
$30M in a series A round led by Atlas Venture, with participation from Lilly Ventures and Amgen Ventures |
10/31/17 |
Navire Pharma |
Palo Alto, Calif. |
$30.00 |
N/A |
$30M launch money from Bridgebio Pharma Inc. |
10/5/17 |
Palleon Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Waltham, Mass. |
$47.60 |
Series A |
$47.6M in a series A round led by SR One, Pfizer Ventures, Vertex Ventures HC, Takeda Ventures and Abbvie Ventures |
10/5/17 |
Panoptica Inc. |
Bernardsville, N.J. |
$11.00 |
Series B |
$11M in a series B financing provided by Third Rock Ventures and SV Health Investors (formerly SV Life Sciences) |
10/9/17 |
Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Salt Lake City |
$60.00 |
Series B |
$60M series B led by Data Collective; prior institutional investors, such as Lux Capital, Obvious Ventures, Advantage Capital, Felicis, Epic and AME also participated, alongside new investors Mubadala, Menlo Ventures, CRV, Two Sigma and angel investors |
10/4/17 |
Spruce Biosciences Inc. |
San Francisco |
$20.00 |
Series A |
$20M from a series A completed in 2016, but just announced, and led by Novo Holdings A/S, with additional investment from Riverwest Venture Partners |
10/13/17 |
Umecrine Cognition AB |
Stockholm |
$2.50 |
N/A |
SEK20M (US$2.5M) round from Karolinska Development AB, and participants Förvaring AB, Stiftelsen Norrlandsfonden and company founder Torbjörn Bäckström |
10/5/17 |
Virionhealth Ltd. |
Coventry, U.K. |
$17.00 |
Series A |
£13M (US$17M) in series A funding led by Abingworth LLP |
10/13/17 |
Visterra Inc. |
Cambridge, Mass. |
$23.60 |
Series C |
$23.6M in the second part of a series C round totaling $46.7M; $23.1M was raised in June 2016; existing investors, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MRL Ventures Fund, Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd., Polaris Partners, Flagship Pioneering, Omega Funds, Cycad Group, Alexandria Venture Investments – as well as new investors, Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd., CTI Life Sciences and Allegheny Financial Group, participated |
10/6/17 |
Ymabs Therapeutics Inc. |
New York |
$50.00 |
N/A |
$50M led by HBM Healthcare Investments and supported by current shareholders |
10/25/17 |
Notes Currency conversions are based on exchange rates at the time of the deal. This chart includes only biotech companies that develop therapeutics. |