Finance Watch: CF Foundation Commits $110m In Partnership With Flagship’s Pioneering Medicines

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Private Company Edition: Flagship’s Pioneering Medicines initiative and the firm’s portfolio companies will deliver cystic fibrosis drug candidates. Also, recent venture capital financings include cloud technology firm Saama’s $430m round and Shoreline’s $140m in new funding.

The biotechnology company creator and funder Flagship Pioneering and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced a strategic partnership on 3 November under which the CF Foundation has committed up to $110m to Pioneering Medicines, Flagship’s strategic initiative designed to extend the reach of the firm’s portfolio company technology platforms into new areas. The aim of the CF Foundation collaboration is to develop medicines for cystic fibrosis patients who do not benefit from available therapies.

Tessera Therapeutics, a Flagship-founded company that closed a $230m series B round in January, also announced that it will...

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