Finance Watch: Dyno Therapeutics Raises $100m For Novel AAV Vectors

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Private Company Edition: Dyno’s first VC round will enable more deals for its novel AAV platform; Eikon pioneers new drug discovery technology. Also, Treeline’s early funding revealed at $211.7m; Capsida raised $140m from a VC round, AbbVie deal; and Affinia closed a $110m series B round. 

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Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. came out of stealth mode a year ago with $9m in seed funding it raised in 2018 and partnerships with Novartis AG and Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. worth more than $2bn in upfront, research and milestone fees to create novel adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors for the delivery of gene therapies. The seed money and upfront fees were expected to fund development of Dyno’s CapsidMap platform for a few years, but the company unveiled a $100m series A venture capital round on 6 May to further accelerate its use of artificial intelligence to design novel AAV vectors.

“We've been well funded since the beginning of the company,” CEO Eric Kelsic told Scrip

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