Stemirna Therapeutics Co. Ltd., which specializes in mRNA technology, said it raised nearly $200 million to speed up the clinical study of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SW-0123. It is in phase I study in China and preclinical data have been published in Nature.
Although 2020 is the highest money-making year on record for the biopharma industry, a direct comparison of the first five months indicates that the amount raised so far in 2021 is 22% ahead of last year, while the number of financings climbed 26%.
Synchron Inc. landed $40 million in new funding through a series B fundraising round led by Khosla Ventures. This round brings the total amount raised by the company to $59 million since its founding in 2016. Other participants in the round included Forepont Capital Partners, ID8 Investments, Shanda Group, General Advance, Subversive Capital, and Re.mind Capital as well as Arani Bose and Thomas Reardon. Returning investors included Neurotechnology Investors, Metis Innovative, and the University of Melbourne.
Myra Vision Inc. has raised $17 million in series A financing and intends to use the funds to advance product development, scale infrastructure and expand its team in support of the glaucoma treatment device’s development. Its name was changed from Myra Medical Inc. along with the financing.
Stablix Therapeutics Inc. has raised $63 million in series A funding to pioneer a novel class of small-molecule drugs, designed to selectively stabilize proteins that would otherwise undergo degradation in the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). It represents what its founding investors consider the first company focused on inhibiting the UPS in a target-specific fashion.
Esco Lifesciences Group Ltd. has closed what it claims to be the largest private fundraising round by an Asia-based life sciences tools company. The Singapore-headquartered life sciences product company raised $200 million in an oversubscribed series A and crossover round. The financing was led by Vivo Capital and Novo Holdings A/S, with participation from new investors, including China Investment Corp. and Singapore-based global investor EDBI.
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