Finance Watch: Government Grants Galore And Other New Funding Sources

While Forbion's new €360m venture capital fund and other investors have emerged to fund private and public companies, BARDA and other US agencies have been active supporters of biopharma firms in recent weeks. Also, KSQ grabs $80m in VC cash and VelosBios brings in $50m.

Finance Watch

Biopharmaceutical companies have announced an abundance of investment in their companies from US government sources recently, which adds to the flurry of new investment funds backing drug developers, including the new €360m ($415.9m) venture capital fund revealed by Forbion on Oct. 1.

Forbion joins Hillhouse Capital, which closed a $10.6bn private equity fund in September to invest across several industries, including health care, as an investor with a renewed commitment to life science opportunities. (Also see "Finance Watch: Morphic's 'Smooth' Progress With Oral Integrin Inhibitors Justifies $80m Series B" - Scrip, 26 September, 2018.) Similarly, Vivo Capital closed a $635m fund last month to back small and mid-cap public life science companies

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