Finance Watch: SpringWorks, Satsuma Launch IPOs; BioNTech Filing Shows US-China Trade War Impact

BioNTech has plenty of cash and is gearing up for an IPO, but money from a Hong Kong investor is in limbo. Plus, Satsuma and SpringWorks bring US IPO total to 34 this year, Fate's FOPO raises $150.5m and Pharvaris brings in $66m.

Finance Watch

There are a lot of notable financial disclosures in BioNTech AG's US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing indicating that the company may raise up to $100m in a future initial public offering, including the fact that the four-year-old German firm has raised $1.3bn to date from seed and venture capital financings and fees from its big pharma partners.

But one particularly eye-catching footnote in the F-1 statement filed on 9 September is that Mainz-based BioNTech has yet to collect €87.7m ($96.5m) from a Hong Kong-based investor who participated...

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