Kahr Medical Ltd.’s $46.5 million financing provides runway to advance its multifunctional immunotherapeutic pipeline. The proceeds will be used to for clinical development of its lead asset, DSP-107, a first-in-class CD47x41BB targeting fusion protein to treat solid tumors and blood cancers through multiple phase I/II studies.
Apollo Therapeutics LLC has completed a $145 million financing to develop its business model, based on building a portfolio of drugs through relationships with U.K. academic institutions.
Mindup, an Israeli digital health incubator, added Phenofast Ltd. to its portfolio this week, banking on the startup’s ability to resolve a critical, ongoing problem for hospitals and community physicians treating patients with urinary tract infections (UTIs). Phenofast hopes to bring clarity to antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and relief to patients in record time.
Fractyl Health Inc. closed $100 million in new financing Wednesday to expand and accelerate clinical development efforts to reduce dependence on insulin among type 2 diabetes patients. The startup, which changed its name from Fractyl Laboratories Inc., will use the financing to support additional late-stage clinical studies for determining the potential of its Revita DMR.
DUBLIN – Ochre Bio Ltd. has raised $9.6 million in seed financing to drug the liver like never before, by combining genetics, single-cell genomics, spatial sequencing, imaging and machine learning to build a high-resolution, in silico model of the organ, which can provide new insights into disease biology and open up new drug targets.
Multinational antibody specialist Hifibio Therapeutics Inc. closed an oversubscribed $75 million series D financing round to move its anti-TNFR2 antibody HFB-200301 and the anti-OX-40 antibody HFB-301001 to phase I trials by the end of this year.
Inmagene Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has raised $100 million in a series C financing to move its IL-17 inhibitor to phase II trials in the U.S. and China.
DUBLIN – Mnemo Therapeutics SAS emerged from stealth mode having raised €75 million (US$91 million) in a series A financing round to take forward a new chimeric antigen T-cell (CAR T) platform, which is focused on selectively targeting both solid and liquid tumors expressing a previously undescribed class of antigens and on improving the persistence and fitness of CAR T cells.