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The second quarter of 2014 started off with a surge in venture capital deals, but the momentum seems to have slowed a bit as the quarter gets closer to its end, with the exception of Trevi Therapeutics and Complexa, which recently announced a total of $38m in new capital.

The second quarter of 2014 started off with a surge in venture capital deals, but the momentum seems to have slowed a bit as the quarter gets closer to its end, with the exception of Trevi Therapeutics and Complexa, which recently announced a total of $38m in new capital.

Perhaps funding news slowed during the last half of May and the first week of June because the biopharma industry...

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