Whoop Inc. secured $575 million in a series G funding round at a $10.1 billion valuation to advance its AI-powered wearable platform for personalized and preventive health care. Abbott Laboratories joined the round as a strategic investor, backing the company’s push to expand access to its device amid growing demand.
Newco Idel Therapeutics GmbH has closed a €9 million (US$10.4 million) seed round to advance the development of a technology for delivery of cytotoxic drugs directly into the cytosol of tumor cells.
Pinnacle Medicines Inc. secured $89 million in a series B financing, bringing the total raised by the company to $134 million. The round was co-led by LAV and Foresite Capital.
Endogenex Inc. has raised $50 million in an extension to its series C financing round to fund the completion of its pivotal Recet clinical study, which is evaluating the use of the company’s non-thermal pulsed electric field system for remodeling the duodenal tissue in adults with type 2 diabetes. The new capital will also be used to support the company's regulatory pathway toward U.S. FDA approval.
Biopharma and med-tech companies raising money in public or private financings, including: Amani, Karyopharm, Outlook, Research Alliance, Rybodyn, Sernova, Sol-Gel, Turn, Virchow.
Newco Immutrin Ltd. has raised £65 million (US$86.9 million) in a series A to take its lead antibody program through to clinical proof of concept in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.