Biopharmas raising money in public or private financings, including: Differentiated, Fennec, Glubio, Nuvectis, Obseva, Oricell, Revelation, Structure, Synthetic and Trevena.
The $65 million series A money banked by Vicinitas Therapeutics Inc. will boost efforts with the company’s Deubiquitinase Targeting Chimera (DUBTAC) platform, developed by way of an academic-industry research collaboration between the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Institut Mérieux SA is offering equity to a preferred partner via a restricted capital increase. Exor NV has consequently acquired 10% of Institut Mérieux’s capital by investing $850 million. A third of this new funding, some $285 million, will be injected immediately this summer, with the balance following over the coming 12 months.
Carmot Therapeutics Inc. has raised $160 million in series D financing to support a trio of early to midstage clinical programs focused on treating diabetes and obesity with peptide-based small-molecule incretin receptor modulators.
Frontera Therapeutics Inc. raised $160 million in a series B funding round to develop its lead gene therapy product candidate for retinal disease, FT-001, for which INDs have been approved by the U.S. FDA and China NMPA.