Exsilio Therapeutics emerged from stealth mode on June 25, 2024, with $82 million from a series A financing that was co-led by Novartis Venture Fund and Delos Capital. The company plans to use naturally occurring, mobile genetic elements to integrate therapeutic genes at a defined location in the genome, making it safer than random integration, which can cause tumor formation.
Alumis Inc. began trading (NASDAQ:ALMS) earlier this morning, with the company’s IPO debuting at $16 per share to raise $210 million, with another $40 million coming through a concurrent private placement at the same price. That was the lower end of its previously announced price range, which had stretched as high as $18 per share.
Uromems SAS raised $47 million in a series C financing round for its Uroactive system, the first smart automated artificial urinary sphincter device to treat stress urinary incontinence. With the funds the company will be able to “tackle the last stage of our clinical trials before commercial launch,” Hamid Lamraoui, CEO and co-founder of Uromems, told BioWorld.