I. FINANCING OF PRIVATE BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES: $330.575M | |||||
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Date |
Amt. (M) |
Details |
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Alnylam |
Cambridge, | 7/7 | $24.6 | Alnylam raised $24.6M in a private financing; investors were Polaris Venture Partners, Abingworth Management, Cardinal Partners, Atlas Venture and ARCH Venture Partners |
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Angiogenix I |
Burlingame, |
7/24 |
$3 |
Angiogenix raised $3M in a Series C preferred stock financing made by RBC Capital Partners |
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Ardana |
Edinburgh, |
7/30** |
£20 |
Ardana raised US$32.3M in a Series B round led by Techno Venture Management; other investors were ISIS Equity Partners plc, Merlin Biosciences Ltd., MVM Ltd., ABN-AMRO Participates BV, 3i and Green Highlander LLC |
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Arexis AB |
Stockholm, |
7/1 |
SEK63 |
Arexis raised US$7.9M in the financing |
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Bionaut |
Cambridge, |
7/8 |
$6.8 |
Bionaut raised $6.8M in a Series A financing with investors Collinson, Howe & Lennox and HealthCap Venture Capital |
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Cohesive |
Franklin, |
7/1 |
$1 |
Cohesive raised a total of $9.5M in a private financing begun in April; $8.5M of the financing was accounted for in the April chart |
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Immunicon |
Huntingdon |
7/10 |
$25 |
Immunicon raised $25M in the financing; investors were TL Ventures, Claneil Enterprises Inc., Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., Canaan Partners, Anthem Capital, Burrill & Co., Foundation Medical Partners, Wheatley Partners, MDS Capital Corp., The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, equity4Life and MedCapital Investments |
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Innodia Inc. |
Montreal |
7/28 |
C$3 |
Innodia raised another US$2.2M in a private financing begun in May; the total amount raised is C$10M (US$7.2M); CDP Capital-Technology Ventures was the latest investor |
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Intercell AG |
Vienna, |
7/23** |
€30 |
Intercell raised US$34.6M in a third round led by Global Life Science Ventures; other investors were Apax Partners Funds, Nomura, TVM and NIB Capital, as well as STAR Ventures |
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Ionix Pharma- |
Cambridge, |
7/16 |
£10 |
Ionix raised US$15.9M through a Series B financing; investors included Apax Partners and The Wellcome Trust |
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Milkhaus |
Providence, |
7/28 |
$5.8 |
Milkhaus raised $5.8M in equity capital through a rights offering to its current shareholders |
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Onco- |
Liege, |
7/15 |
€14 |
OncoMethylome raised US$15.6M with investors ING Belgium, Polytechnos Venture Partners, Life Sciences Partners, Technowal, Meusinvest and S.I.B.L., as well as members of management |
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PamGene |
's-Hertogenbosch, |
7/7 |
€10 |
PamGene raised US$11.34M in a second financing round with investors LCF Rothschild Venture Partners, Alta Partners, GIMV and LSP |
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Santarus |
San Diego |
7/15 |
$3.7 |
Santarus raised another $3.7M in its Series D financing round, bringing the total raised to $55.1M |
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Speedel |
Basel, |
7/9** |
CHF52.1 |
Speedel Group raised US$38.7M in a mezzanine financing round |
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Tercica Inc. |
South San |
7/17 |
$44 |
Tercica raised $44M in a second round; investors were Rho Ventures, Care Capital LLC, MedImmune Ventures Inc., MPM Capital and Prospect Venture Partners |
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Therascope |
Heidelberg, |
7/18 |
€24.1 |
Therascope raised US$27.8M in a second round; investors were Earlybird Venture Capital, Schroder Ventures Life Sciences, ABN AMRO, Ventech, Auriga Ventures and Heidelberg Innovation |
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TransOral |
San Rafael, |
7/24 |
$7.5 |
TransOral raised $7.5M in a Series B round led by Montreux Equity Partners; other investors were Hamilton Apex Technology Ventures, BioAsia Investments and Peninsula Equity Partners |
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Xcellsyz |
Newcastle, |
7/3 |
£0.5 |
Xcellsyz raised US$835,000 from investors NEL Ltd. and ITX Corp. |
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Xenogen |
Alameda, |
7/11 |
$22 |
Xenogen raised $22M after closing a preferred equity financing led by Abingworth Management |
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II. MILESTONE PAYMENTS AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS FROM EXISTING CORPORATE PARTNERS: $6.912M | |||||
Company (Symbol)#* |
Partner |
Amt. (M) |
Triggering Event |
Details (Date) |
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Abgenix Inc. |
Pfizer Inc. |
ND |
Milestone payment |
Abgenix received the payment for Pfizer's filing of an investigational new drug application with the FDA for an antibody product candidate (7/16) |
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Guilford |
Daiichi |
$0.55 |
Milestone payment |
Guilford received the payment when Daiichi filed for approval of Dopascan injection in Japan (7/10) |
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ImClone |
Merck KgaA |
$6 |
Milestone payments |
ImClone received $6M through two milestones triggered by Merck's submission of marketing applications for Erbitux for metastatic colorectal cancer in the European Union and Switzerland (7/15) |
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Pharmacopeia |
Celgene |
ND |
Milestone payment |
Pharmacopeia earned a milestone payment for discovering lead compounds from its compound collection active against Celgene's inflammation-related kinase target (7/22) |
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Transition |
Novo Nordisk |
C$0.5 |
Investment |
Transition Therapeutics received an investment of US$362,000 after selling about 1.1M common shares to Novo Nordisk (7/25) |
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Notes: |
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# Unless otherwise indicated, shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange. |
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* Denotes privately held company. |
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** Denotes the date the item ran in BioWorld International. |
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ND = Not disclosed. |
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VSE = Vancouver Stock Exchange. |
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