Freya Biosciences Has $38m And A Plan To Change Women’s Lives

Emerging Company Profile: Armed with a new tranche of funding, the Danish group is aiming to improve the lot of infertile couples by altering the microbiome of patients with dysbiosis.  

Emerging Company Profile: Freya Biosciences
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Freya Biosciences closed a $38m series A financing last month and will be putting the cash towards the development of its vaginal microbial immunotherapeutic FB101, initially for the treatment of infertility.

Key Takeaways
  • Freya Biosciences is developing FB101 and FB301, bacterial consortia aimed at altering infertile women’s vaginal flora
  • Investors including Sofinnova Partners and OMX Ventures have contributed to Freya’s recent series A

“We estimate that about one-third of the population has [vaginal] dysbiosis – essentially the wrong type of bacteria,” Colleen Acosta, Freya’s CEO, told Scrip

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