Finance Watch: Billions In And Billions Out In Venture Capital Fundraising

Three Funds Raised $1.3bn; 16 Biopharmas Brought In $1.2bn

Private Company Edition: The flood of venture capital into health care and life science firms continues with Perceptive closing a $1.1bn credit fund and Sanofi investing $50m in Jeito Capital. Also, Ambrx closed a $200m crossover round as biopharma remains on track for a record funding year.

Finance Watch

The US presidential election slowed the flow of venture capital funding announcements during the first week of November, but the flood of new biopharmaceutical VC deals resumed during the second week of the month with several $100m-plus mega-rounds, bringing the total for the past two weeks to $1.2bn and counting. 

Investors continue to reveal new funds for health care and life science opportunities as well with $1.3bn in freshly raised capital across three funds. One of these was Fountain Healthcare Partners’ third fund, which totaled €125m ($148.6m) – an amount that exceeded an initial €100m goal and increased from a previously announced first close of €118m

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