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Investors Back Microbial Specialist EnteroBiotix’s Series A Financing

Microbiome-Based Portfolio Underpinned By End-To-End Control Of Supply Chain

 
• By Sten Stovall

Emerging Company Profile: Scotland-based EnteroBiotix will use proceeds from a successful series A financing to advance its nascent pipeline of novel high-diversity microbial therapeutics, enhancing the gut microbiome and eventually targeting multiple indications.    

Emerging Profile Company: EnteroBiotix
EnteroBiotix products contain micro-organisms derived from healthy people • Source: Alamy

EnteroBiotix’s promise of an innovative approach to reinstating gut microbiome diversity and function has attracted solid investor interest and produced an oversubscribed £15.5m ($21.5m) series A financing that the four-year-old biotech’s CEO says will be used to advance its pipeline, underpin product development and manufacturing capabilities as well as and grow the group’s employee headcount from 20 at present to 50 in the near-term.

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