Annual biopharma financing values have fluctuated significantly over the past seven years, peaking during the pandemic-era surge in 2020 and 2021 before retreating in 2022. After rebounding to more than $102 billion in 2024, total financings declined in 2025 to $81.21 billion. Monthly totals in the year ranged from just under $3 billion (February and April) to more than $13.68 billion in October. December financings totaled $9.08 billion, comparable to November’s $10 billion collective raise.
Annual biopharma financing values have fluctuated significantly over the past seven years, peaking during the pandemic-era surge in 2020 and 2021 before retreating in 2022. After rebounding to more than $102 billion in 2024, total financings declined in 2025 to $81.21 billion. Monthly totals in the year ranged from just under $3 billion (February and April) to more than $13.68 billion in October. December financings totaled $9.08 billion, comparable to November’s $10 billion collective raise.
Protego Biopharma Inc. closed an oversubscribed $130 million series B financing that will be used to advance PROT-001, the company’s treatment for amyloid light (AL) chain amyloidosis. a plasma cell disorder where the cells produce abnormal, misfolded immunoglobulin light chain proteins.
Protego Biopharma Inc. has identified prodrugs of transthyretin (TTR; PALB) stabilizers acting as TTR aggregation and/or amyloid formation inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of familial amyloid polyneuropathy and familial amyloid cardiomyopathy.
Protego Biopharma Inc. and Scripps Research Institute have identified serine/threonine kinase/endoribonuclease IRE1 (ERN1) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of diabetes, myocardial infarction, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), Parkinson's disease, retinal degeneration, atherosclerosis, Gaucher disease and Alzheimer's disease, among others.
Protego Biopharma Inc. raised $51 million in a series A financing to advance the targeting of protein misfolding diseases. The fundraising is a few years on from 2017, when the idea underscoring the company’s birth was to build a platform based on small molecules that could stabilize proteins and restore their functionality.
