Finance Watch: The Bigger The Better? Erasca, Imago Rise After IPOs

Five Launches Bring 2021 First-Time Offerings Total To 67

Public Company Edition: Three $100m-plus US initial public offerings launched on 15 July after two smaller biopharma IPOs earlier in the month. Also, Gelesis announced a SPAC merger, Brii and Amniotics launched ex-US IPOs, and Intellia, Cerevel and Kymera priced large follow-on offerings. 

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Erasca Inc. and Imago BioSciences, Inc. raised the most money out of the five biopharmaceutical companies that launched initial public offerings during the first half of July, and their stocks were the only two trading in positive territory after their IPOs.

With first-time offerings by Erasca, Imago, TScan Therapeutics, Unicycive Therapeutics, Inc. and TransCode Therapeutics Inc 67 drug developers have launched IPOs in the US so far this year. The 62 companies that went public during the first two quarters of 2021 grossed $10.3bn and generated an average return of just 1.1%

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