Finance Watch: Insilico Raises $255m To Take AI-Discovered Drugs Into The Clinic

Amplitude Closes CAD$200m ($162.3m) Precision Medicine Fund

Private Company Edition: Nine new venture capital mega-rounds include Insilico’s series C, $250m from Blackstone for a CAR-T therapy spinout from Intellia and a $210m series B round for Umoja.

Finance Watch

Venture capital investors have not taken the summer off, at least not during the first few weeks of June, continuing to support mega-rounds of $100m or more for biopharmaceutical companies with novel therapeutics candidates and technology platforms, including a $255m series C round for the artificial intelligence-based drug discovery and development firm Insilico Medicine.

A frequent collaborator with big pharma partners, Insilico announced the super-sized venture capital round on 22 June and said the proceeds would fund continued development of its AI-powered capabilities and be used to advance internally developed preclinical and clinical drug candidates

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