Finance Watch: Hatteras Nearly Halfway To $200m Goal For New Early-Stage VC Fund

Private Company Edition: General Partner Clay Thorp says the venture capital firm's longtime focus on seed and early-stage investments is unchanged and bolstered by market fundamentals. Also, Talaris and insitro each raised $100m Series A rounds, plus other financings.

As Hatteras Venture Partners gets ready to fund a new slate of early-stage biopharmaceutical, medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies, General Partner Clay Thorp told Scrip the venture capital firm remains confident about investment prospects in its home state of North Carolina and throughout the US.

Durham, NC-based Hatteras revealed on April 15 that it has closed on the first $94m of Hatteras Venture Partners VI...