Theseus Pharmaceuticals Inc., a startup developing new tyrosine kinase inhibitors to overcome treatment-resistant cancer mutations, has raised $100 million in a series B financing led by Foresite Capital. Co-founded at the health care investment firm Orbimed with former Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. scientists who pioneered the development of pan-variant kinase inhibitors, the company's lead candidate is THE-630, a next-generation pan-variant KIT inhibitor for the potential treatment of refractory gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
The newly renamed Hutchmed (China) Ltd., previously known as Hutchison China Meditech Ltd. (Chi-Med), plans to sell $100 million of its American depository shares at $30.50 per ADS in a private placement to funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia.
HONG KONG – Onquality Pharmaceuticals LLC raised an additional $20 million from a series A+ financing round, bringing its amount of capital raised to $35 million.
The biopharmaceutical sector is showing no signs of slowing the pace of attracting capital. After coming off a record year, global private and public companies collectively raised $37 billion in the first quarter, indicating that it could be another bumper year for financings.
Biopharmas raising money in public or private financings, including: Achilles, ACM, Applied Molecular, CM Life Sciences, Delta 4, Homology, Humanigen, Icosavax, Innovatus Life Sciences, Ionis, Metagenomi, Panacea Acquisition, Xoma.
Mineralys Therapeutics Inc., a Philadelphia-based company developing an aldosterone synthase inhibitor in-licensed from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. (MTPC), has raised $40 million in series A funding to complete a phase II proof-of-concept study in hypertension for the candidate, known as MLS-101.