I. FINANCING OF PRIVATE BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES: $380.65M | ||||
Company | Location |
Date | Amt. (M) |
Details |
Affitech A/S |
Oslo, Norway |
6/7/04 |
NOK30 (US$4.5) |
Participating in the fourth-round financing were existing investors Teknoinvest, Ferd Venture and Four Seasons Venture, as well as new investor Braganza A/S |
Aria Biosystems Corp. |
Menlo Park, Calif. |
6/15/04 |
$5.5 |
Alloy Ventures and Latterell Venture Partners led the first-round financing; also participating were Agilent Ventures and Versant Ventures |
ARYx Therapeutics Inc. |
Santa Clara, Calif. |
6/1/04 |
$55 |
The Series D financing was led by Nomura Phase4 Ventures; other new investors were JAFCO Life Science Investments, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Montreux Equity Partners, Novel Bioventures, Itochu International and ATEL Ventures; returning investors were MPM Capital, OrbiMed and Merlin BioMed |
Artielle Therapeutics Inc. |
Portland, Ore. |
6/28/04 |
$4 |
Virogenomics Inc. spun out its program in auto-immune diseases into Artielle, which closed on the first part of a potential $11M investment; Sanderling Ventures led the round and was joined by UV Partners, Tenex Greenhouse and Northwest Technology Ventures |
Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG |
Munich, Germany |
6/29/04 |
€10 (US$12.4) |
Techno Venture Management, the lead investor in two previous rounds, also led the third-round financing |
Bridge Pharmaceuticals Corp. |
Menlo Park, Calif. |
6/1/04 |
$3.5 |
SRI International launched Bridge Pharmaceuticals, which completed a Series A round led by WI Harper Group and including Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute ITIC Fund, the Development Center for Biotechnology, YFY Group and Singapore's Springboard Harper |
CellCentric Ltd. |
Cambridge, UK |
6/3/04 |
ND |
Avlar BioVentures Ltd. led the first-round financing, which included Providence Investment Co. Ltd.; the amount was not disclosed |
Cellular Genomics Inc. |
Branford, Conn. |
6/14/04 |
$12.6 |
Cellular raised $12.6M in the second closing of its Series C financing; the first closing brought in $22.3M in January; investing in the second closing were new investors CDP Capital, RiverVest Venture Partners and Toucan Capital Corp., as well as previous investors Coastview Capital and Connecticut Innovations Inc. |
ChemoCentryx Inc. |
San Carlos, Calif. |
6/17/04 |
$33 |
Participating in the financing round were HBM BioVentures, Alta Partners, GIMV NV, Hanseatic Asset Management, Techne Corp., OrbiMed Advisors and Pictet |
Combinature Biopharm AG |
Berlin |
6/30/04 |
€5.5 (US$6.8) |
Aurelia Private Equity GmbH led the Series B round, which also included C Venture GmbH and 3i Group Investments LP |
Fulcrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Las Vegas |
6/22/04 |
$8 |
The company's first institutional round of financing was led by Third Point Management Co. LLC and included direct investments by Fujisawa Investments for Entrepreneurship LP funds |
HemeBiotech A/S |
Hillerod, Denmark |
6/28/04 |
€15 (US$18.6) |
HemeBiotech raised €15 million, €4.5 million of which it received immediately; the remainder will be provided through a consortium of investors |
Idun Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
San Diego |
6/14/04 |
$27 |
The preferred stock financing led by MPM Capital was expected to be the initial tranche of a two-part financing of $65.6M; other new investors were Sutter Hill Ventures, Prospect Venture Partners, Pacific Rim Ventures and Aberdare Ventures; returning investors were GeneChem, Venrock Associates, Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management, RBC Capital Partners, BioVeda Capital and Ventana Capital Management; Montgomery & Co. was placement agent |
Inverseon Inc. |
Overland Park, Kan. |
6/17/04 |
ND |
The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. made a seed-round investment in the firm, which was created and initially funded by EGB Advisors LLC |
Ionix Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Cambridge, UK |
6/21/04 |
ND |
Ionix began its Series C financing round with new investments from existing investors Apax Partners and The Wellcome Trust |
Jerini AG |
Berlin |
6/9/04 |
€31 (US$37.2) |
The Series B round was led by new investor HealthCap and co-led by current investors TVM Techno Venture Management and 3i; also participating were Sanders Morris Harris, the PolyTechnos Funds, IBB-Beteiligungs- esellschaft and bmp, as well as private investors |
Modular Genetics Inc. |
Woburn, Mass. |
6/30/04 |
$5.5 |
Boston University Community Technology Fund was the lead investor in what was expected to be the first closing in a Series B financing |
Mutabilis |
Paris |
6/14/04 |
€8 (US$9.6) |
Auriga Partners led the second-round financing; another new investor, Crédit Lyonnais Private, also joined previous investors Bioam, Axa Private Equity and Inserm-Transfert in the investment |
Nucleonics Inc. |
Malvern, Pa. |
6/1/04 |
$8.3 |
New investor Quaker BioVentures participated in the second close of the Series B round, as did previous investors New Enterprise Associates and S.R. One Ltd.; together with $40.9 raised in April, the round totaled $49.2M |
Optimata Ltd. |
Ramat Gan, Israel |
6/10/04 |
$1 |
Trimaran Investments and the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Israel participated in the financing |
Pecos Labs Inc. (spin-off of SIGA Technologies Inc.) |
New York |
6/1/04 |
ND |
SIGA spun off into Pecos immunological bioinformatics technology and certain vaccine development assets; at the same time Pecos raised money from private investors, and SIGA retained a minority stake (6/1) |
Protez Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Philadelphia |
6/17/04 |
$1.6 |
BTG was the founding investor and BioAdvance, the biotechnology greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania, also participated in the seed round, which was capped with a $300,000 purchase of convertible debt by Ben Franklin Technology Partners |
PTC Therapeutics Inc. |
South Plainfield, N.J. |
6/23/04 |
$15 |
The $15M investment completed the Series E financing; the company raised $35M in December 2003; new investors included Genavent Partners LP, Novartis BioVentures and POSCO BioVentures |
Rejuvenon Corp. |
The Woodlands, Texas |
6/23/04 |
$37 |
Schroder Ventures Life Sciences led the Series B round, which included other new investors Boston Millennia Partners, Cogene BioTech Ventures, OrbiMed Advisors and Prospect Venture Partners; previous investors BCM Technologies, Burrill & Co. and Novo A/S also participated |
Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
San Diego |
6/15/04 |
$23 |
Domain Partners VI LP led the Series B preferred stock round, which also included BA Venture Partners, Montreux Equity Partners, Fog City Fund, CDIB Bioscience Ventures and Windamere Venture Partners |
Symphony Neuro Development Co. |
New York |
6/17/04 |
$43 |
Institutional investors led by Symphony Capital formed SNDC with a $43M investment to develop the neuroimmunophilin ligand GPI 1485, which it licensed from Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Vaccinex Inc. |
Rochester, N.Y. |
6/3/04 |
$8.4 | Pan Atlantic Bank and Trust Ltd., an early institutional investor in Vaccinex, led the second-round financing |
Zen-Bio Inc. |
Research Triangle Park, N.C. |
6/8/04 |
$0.15 | Zen-Bio received a loan of $150,000 in the form of a North Carolina Biotechnology Center Small Business Research Award |
II. MILESTONE PAYMENTS AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS FROM EXISTING CORPORATE PARTNERS: $130.4M | ||||
Company (Symbol)#* | Partner (Country) | Amt. (M) | Triggering Event | Details (Date) |
Array BioPharma Inc. (ARRY) |
AstraZeneca plc (UK) |
$4 |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by initiation of a Phase I trial of the small-molecule cancer compound ARRY- 142886 (AZD6244) (6/14) |
Array BioPharma Inc. (ARRY) |
Amgen Inc. |
$0.42 |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by research progress in their January 2002 deal under which Array is helping discover leads for an Amgen target (6/1) |
ChemBridge Research Laboratories LLC* |
Eisai Co. Ltd. (Japan) |
ND |
Milestone payment |
A discovery milestone in their collaboration targeting a G protein-coupled receptor triggered further discovery support to CRL (6/2) |
Hematech LLC* |
Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd. (Japan) |
ND |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by successful production of calves that carry the human heavy-and light-chain antibody genes but lack both copies of the bovine heavy chain antibody gene (6/2) |
Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IDEV) |
Pliva d.d. (Croatia) |
$120 |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by FDA approval of Sanctura, a product for treating overactive bladder that will be co-promoted by the companies (6/2) |
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ISIS) |
Eyetech Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
$1 |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by Eyetech's filing of an NDA for Macugen to treat wet age-related macular degeneration; Isis patents were used in developing the product (6/24) |
Karo Bio AB (Sweden; SSE:KARO) |
Wyeth |
ND |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by advancement into predevelopment a lead compound for atherosclerosis covered under their 2001 collaboration (6/18) |
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. (LGND) |
GlaxoSmithKline plc (UK) |
$1 |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by GSK's decision to continue Phase II development of GW501516, a peroxisome proliferation- activated receptor modulator for treating dyslipidemias (6/14) |
Structural GenomiX Inc.* |
Eli Lilly and Co. |
ND |
Milestone payment |
Validation milestones were reached in the installation of a high-throughput structural biology facility for Lilly (6/2) |
Unigene Laboratories Inc. (OTC BB:UGNE) |
GlaxoSmithKline plc (UK) |
$4 |
Milestone payment |
Triggered by the start of a Phase I trial of an oral formulation of parathyroid hormone for osteoporosis that is covered under their April 2002 collaboration (6/22) |
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# Unless otherwise indicated, shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange. | ||||
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* = Private company. | ||||
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Currency conversions are based on exchange rates at the time of the deal. | ||||
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ND = Not disclosed. | ||||
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OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board; SSE = Stockholm Stock Exchange. | ||||
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