In a sure sign that the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco will soon be under way, the waning days of December and the first week of January brought a deluge of new funding announcements, both from investors with fresh capital to back biopharmaceutical companies and from drug developers that have raised cash to support their research and development programs.
Finance Watch: Three New Funds Bring $1.6bn-Plus For Biopharma Firms Globally
VC Financings Pick Up Pace Ahead Of JPM
Private Company Edition: TCGX raises $1bn for its second fund, Goldman Sachs’ first fund totals $650m and Panlin’s biopharma fund grows. Also, Apollo’s series C increases to $260m, Avistone closes a $140m series B, OnCusp raises a $100m series A and HI-Bio grabs $95m in series B cash.
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Public Company Edition: Stock valuations are falling due to political, economic and regulatory uncertainty, resulting in fewer large public offerings, more alternative financings and cost cuts. Carisma, Tenaya, BioAtla, Arbutus, Nkarta, Alector and Adaptimmune announced layoffs.
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Private Company Edition: The latest group of drug developers to announce venture capital financings is remarkable for its geographic diversity, from Character Biosciences’ $93m series B round in the US to Augustine’s $85m series B in Belgium to a $29.2m series C for Aculys in Japan.
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