Biopharma and med-tech companies raising money in public or private financings, including: Kardigan, Ligand, Nicox, Northlinks Bio, Pneumagen, Rapalogix, Trimtech.
Tissium SA secured €60 million (US$68 million) in a financing package, which includes €30 million in a series D2 round and a €30 million facility from the European Investment Bank. The funds will be used to support the company's commercial and clinical activities, as well as its pipeline development and expansion of its platform technology, which removes the need for sutures and leads to better nerve repair.
Chinese peptide therapeutics developer Shaanxi Micot Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. is seeking up to HK$1.22 billion (US$155 million) in a Hong Kong IPO to advance its lead phase III chronic kidney disease candidate, MT-1013, and next-generation obesity therapies.
Croívalve Ltd. secured a further $20 million in series B financing for its Duo Adapt system, a transcatheter device that treats tricuspid regurgitation. The company also received $7 million from the European Innovation Council and the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund in grant financing. Croívalve will use the funds to expand its clinical study, which is evaluating the safety and performance of the Duo Adapt system in patients with severe or greater symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation.
Biopharma and med-tech companies in Asia-Pacific raising money in public or private financings: Airs Medical, Gero AI, Multivalent Biotherapies, Coherent, Racura Oncology.
Bionyra Pharma has emerged with a $165 million oversubscribed series A and a portfolio of three antibodies with extended half-lives that are designed to offer improvements over existing classes of monoclonal antibodies for treating chronic inflammatory diseases.
Replicate Bioscience Inc. has been awarded a new grant worth approximately $3 million from the Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of globally accessible tuberculosis (TB) vaccines using Replicate’s clinically validated self-replicating RNA (srRNA) platform.