Movano Inc. closed its IPO on the Nasdaq Friday, reeling in gross proceeds of $48.9 million. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based startup launched the offering of 8.5 million shares of common stock priced at $5 per share on March 22, with a target of raising $42.5 million. The final tally included the fully exercised over-allotment option by underwriters to purchase an additional 1,275,000 shares.
Biopharmas raising money in public or private financings, including: Amplicore, Design, Edgewise, Gain, Gyroscope, Ikena, Phoremost, Summit, TFF, Universe, Windtree.
DUBLIN – Last May, a quartet of Dutch biotech industry veterans gathered for a socially distanced outdoor meeting in a private garden in Leiden to discuss what could be done to prevent the present COVID-19 fiasco from ever occurring on such a scale again. A new startup, Leyden Laboratories BV, emerged from that conversation, and it has just raised €40 million (US$47.3 million) in a series A round to develop broad-spectrum, self-administered, intranasal antiviral drugs to prevent infection.
According to the BioWorld Cancer Financings Report, 2020 proved to be a record year in terms of capital raised by biopharmaceutical companies working on therapeutics for cancer indications.
DUBLIN – Step Pharma SAS closed a €35 million (US$41.5 million) series B round to move its first-in-class cytidine triphosphate synthase 1 inhibitor into clinical trials in patients with T-cell and B-cell malignancies.
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