Alizé Pharma 3 Raises €67m To Build ‘Fully Fledged’ Biotech

Soleno Therapeutics will raise about $200m gross proceeds from an offering of 2.35m of its common stock to fund the commercialization of Vykat XR, which became the first drug for Prader-Willi syndrome to gain US approval on March 26.

The Swiss company believes its platform can make radiopharmaceuticals easier to produce and more accessible to patients.

Private Company Edition: Catalio raised more than $400m for its fourth health care-focused VC fund, while AN Venture Partners raised $200m for Japan and beyond. In VC financings, among a dearth of mega rounds, Neuron23’s $96.5m series D is the largest round in recent weeks.

While companies such as Eli Lilly and Roche have faced setbacks to their fibroblast activation protein-targeting oncology therapies, Actithera believes its radiopharmaceuticals platform will prove more successful.