D3 Bio Inc. secured $108 million in a series B financing round Dec. 9 to support its planned phase III program of lead oral KRAS G12C inhibitor, elisrasib (D3S-001).
Christmas came early for a number of biopharma companies this year as eight companies collectively raised $3.24 billion in public offerings. Both Structure Therapeutics Inc. and Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced upsized offerings of $650 million each, and Kymera Therapeutics Inc. raised $602 million, placing all three in the top 10 follow-on offerings of the year.
Seventy-three pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies from mainland China filed for IPOs in Hong Kong this year, a review by BioWorld found. In the second half of 2025, 43 new securities reports were filed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, increasing from the 30 applications in the first half.
Biopharma financing activity from January through November reveals an environment that has cycled through dramatic peaks and subsequent normalization. In November 2025, $9.94 billion was collected through 96 transactions, down in both value and volume from $13.23 billion from 137 transactions in October.
Kazia Therapeutics Ltd. raised AU$50 million (US$33.15 million) in a private placement of equity securities to advance lead candidate paxalisib, a brain-penetrant dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor in clinical trials for brain cancer and advanced breast cancer.