Finance Watch: Happy Holidays For Flagship With A New $618m Fund

Private Company Edition: Flagship ends 2017 with its biggest life science fund yet totaling $618m. Also, December sees a year-end surge in VC deals, including a $100m Series B round for Allakos.

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A year after Flagship Pioneering updated its name to reflect the firm's investments in innovation and company creation, and revealed a new $285m special opportunities fund, it announced on Dec. 20 that it closed its largest fund to date totaling $618m.

Flagship has raised $2.3bn since it set up shop in 2000 and began putting money primarily into biopharmaceutical companies. It lists more than 35 portfolio companies, including both private firms and ventures that have moved from start-ups to publicly traded firms. Among them are private mRNA-focused Moderna Therapeutics LLC, the publicly traded microbiome dug developer Seres Therapeutics Inc. and the red blood cell-based therapeutics firm Rubius Therapeutics Inc

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