Recent Financings Of Private Companies, October 2014
• By Deanna Kamienski, Beth Allan, Amanda Micklus, Maureen Riordan, and Steven Muntner
Derived from Strategic Transactions, a premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Venture Funding column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors. This month’s column covers deals announced August through September 2014.
Castle Biosciences brings in $11.8mm through late-stage venture round
Molecular diagnostics company Castle Biosciences Inc. raised $11.8mm through a late-stage financing round from new investor HealthQuest Capital (which...
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In this week's episode: Sanofi’s Blueprint buy; AstraZeneca’s breast cancer resistance results at ASCO; BMS and BioNTech’s big bispecific deal; Kymera’s Dupixent in a pill; and Degron’s CEO on pipeline and strategy.
