I. FINANCING OF PRIVATE BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES: $85.1M | ||||||||
Company | Location | Date | Amt. (M) | Investors | ||||
Cytovia Inc. | Irvine, Calif. | 4/1 | $10 | Cytovia was spun off from CoCensys Inc. | ||||
(1st round) | in 1/98; in this 1st financing round, it | |||||||
raised $10M from Domain Associates, | ||||||||
Crosspoint Venture Partners, Sanderling | ||||||||
Ventures and Forrest, Binkley & Brown | ||||||||
Kosan Biosciences | Burlingame, Calif. | 4/8 | $15 | Kosan sold $15M in convertible preferred | ||||
Inc. (2nd round) | stock to new investors, led by S.R. One Ltd. | |||||||
and including the Goldman Sachs Group, | ||||||||
Lombard Odier and AG-Biotech Capital; | ||||||||
they were joined by current investors | ||||||||
Alta Partners, Sofinnova, Walden and | ||||||||
Kosan cofounder Daniel Santi | ||||||||
Modex Therapeutics | Lausanne, Switzerland | 4/27 | $8 | This financing round was oversubscribed; | ||||
SA (2nd round) | a group of European investors, led by Atlas | |||||||
Venture, Banexi Ventures, 3i plc and Novar- | ||||||||
tis Venture Fund, was joined by current | ||||||||
investors Alta Partners, Alta Berkeley and | ||||||||
Lombard Odier Immunology Fund | ||||||||
Molecular | Palo Alto, Calif. | 4/28 | $9.5 | Investors in this financing round included | ||||
Applications Group | Bay City Capital, Coral Ventures, Delphi | |||||||
Inc. | Ventures, Medicus Venture Partners, | |||||||
Morgenthaler Ventures and private investor | ||||||||
Timothy Springer | ||||||||
Orchid Biocomputer | Princeton, N.J. | 4/13 | $27.5 | Orchid raised $27.5M through a Series C | ||||
Inc. (3rd round) | convertible preferred stock financing, which | |||||||
was led by Orbimed Advisors LLC and the | ||||||||
Invesco Funds Group. Other investors | ||||||||
included Oxford BioScience Partners, WPG | ||||||||
Farber, Millennium Ventures of Motorola | ||||||||
Inc. and SmithKline Beecham plc | ||||||||
Oxagen Ltd. | Abingdon, U.K. | 4/6 | $13.7 | Oxagen raised £8.2M ($13.7M) from new | ||||
(1st round) | investors 3i plc and Advent Ltd. and pre- | |||||||
vious investors The Wellcome Trust, the | ||||||||
University of Oxford and 2 unnamed pri- | ||||||||
vate investors | ||||||||
Reprogen Inc. | Irvine, Calif. | 4/17 | $1.4 | The company raised $1.4M in the 2nd | ||||
(1st round) | tranche of its financing, bringing the total | |||||||
to $6.5M (the 1st tranche closed 2/13/98); | ||||||||
new investors included Life Science Ven- | ||||||||
tures and Hambrecht & Quist LLC | ||||||||
II. MILESTONE PAYMENTS AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS FROM CORPORATE PARTNERS: $12.0M | ||||||||
Company | Partner | Amt. | Triggering | Details (Date) | ||||
(Symbol) | (Symbol; Country) | (M) | Event | |||||
Atrix Laboratories | Block Drug Corp. | $7 | Approvable | The companies entered an agreement in | ||||
Inc. (ATRX) | (NASDAQ:BLOCA) | letter on | 12/96 for Block Drug to market Atridox | |||||
Atridox | in North America; the FDA sent Atrix an | |||||||
approvable letter for Atridox for treating | ||||||||
periodontal disease, triggering the $7M | ||||||||
milestone payment (4/8) | ||||||||
Isis | Ciba Vision Corp. | $5 | Submission | The companies entered an agreement in | ||||
Pharmaceuticals Inc. | (division of Novartis | of NDA on | 7/97 for Ciba Vision to market fomivirsen | |||||
(ISIP) | AG; Switzerland) | fomivirsen | worldwide; the partners jointly submitted | |||||
an NDA for the antisense drug (for treating | ||||||||
AIDS-related cytomegalovirus retinitis), | ||||||||
triggering the $5M milestone payment (4/8) | ||||||||
III. PIPE/REG. S FINANCINGS: $0M | ||||||||
There were no PIPE/Reg. S financings in April. |