July’s first three initial public offerings in the US by biopharmaceutical companies brought in close to $600m to fund the development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies, engineered natural killer (NK) cells and treatments for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Finance Watch: Poseida, Nkarta And Inventiva Are July’s First Biopharma IPOs
Poseida, Nkarta and Inventiva raised $224m, $252m and $107.7m, respectively. Also, Forbion raised €185m ($208m) of a new €250m fund and Blackstone closed the last $1.2bn of its $4.6bn fund for public and private company deals, and Ascendis led recent follow-ons with a $569.2m offering.
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