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Start-Up Quarterly Statistics, Q2 2014

 
• By Deanna Kamienski

Start-ups raised $893.9 million in Q2 2014, a 25% drop from last quarter’s record-setting $1.18 billion. Metabolic disease was the most prevalent therapeutic category involved in alliances; seven acquisitions were signed, five in the biopharma sector.

During the second quarter of 2014 start-up companies raised a total of $893.9 million, a 25% drop from the previous quarter’s $1.18 billion, which was the biggest quarter for start-up fundraising since this column debuted five years ago. Biopharma companies garnered 88% ($779.6 million), the most (40%) resulting from Series B rounds. Only four medical device start-ups raised money, a total of $68.4 million, and four in vitro diagnostics companies took in a combined $45.9 million, almost doubling Q1’s $23.1 million. (See Exhibit 1.)

Exhibit 1

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