FINANCING OF PRIVATE BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES: $124.23M

Company

Location

Date

Amt. (M)

Details


Aldagen Inc.

Durham, N.C.

12/19/06

$17.3

A $14.3M Series C financing was co-led by Harbert Venture Partners LLC and Intersouth Partners, and included Aurora Funds, Trelys Funds LP, Tall Oaks Capital, Village Ventures and the Piedmont Angel Network; a $3M debt financing was provided by Square 1 Bank

Cardioxyl
Pharmaceuticals

Inc.

Towson, Md.

12/6/06

$14.5

The Series A financing was co-led by The Aurora Funds and New Enterprise Associates

Codon
Devices Inc.

Cambridge,
Mass.

12/18/06

$20

The Series B financing was led by Highland Capital Partners and included previous investors Alloy Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

ConjuGon
Inc.

Madison, Wis.

12/13/06

$3.3

Rosetta Partners led the financing round, which included an additional investment by the Wiscon- sin Investment Partners

Cylex Inc.

Columbia, Md.

12/4/06

$18 4

Channel Medical Partners and Canaan Partners co-led what was expected to be the first closing of a Series C round; First Analysis and existing investors Cahn Medical Technologies, Calvert Venture Fund, Chesapeake Emerging Opportunities, Early Stage Enterprises, NJTC Venture Fund, Roche Venture Fund and The Washington Dinner Club also participated

Genfit SA

Lille, France

12/12/06

€15
($19.6)

The financing was completed prior to admission of the company's shares on the Euronext market; it sold 1.67M shares; the reference share price upon listing was €9, with 11.27M shares outstanding

Morphogenesis
Inc.

Oldsmar, Fla.

12/4/06

£0.193

($0.38)

The investment was provided by ValiRx plc, which also received three-year warrants in the deal

Predictive
Biosciences

Lexington, Mass.

12/18/06

$10

The Series A financing was co-led by Highland Capital Partners and IDG Ventures Boston

Provid
Pharmaceuticals

Inc.

North Brunswick, N.J.

12/19/06

$0.75

The funding was provided by the Edison Innovation Fund

VIRxSYS
Corp.

Gaithersburg,
Md.

12/13/06

$20

The Series G round of financing came from the exercise of warrants from investors in the com- pany's October 2005 $31M Series F round


Notes:

Currency conversions are based on exchange rates at the time of the deal.

ND = Not disclosed.