Rayzebio Inc. has swiftly followed up its recent $45 million series A round with a $105 million series B round that attracted several top-tier crossover investors.
The amount of money raised by the med-tech industry through public and private financings in 2020 is more than double the amounts seen in 2017 and 2018 and 37% above last year, despite massive global disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
TORONTO – Ontario and British Columbia med-tech companies have received CA$1.4 million (US$1 million) from Ottawa’s Supercluster fund, making a difference they said for patients suffering the long-range effects of COVID-19, chronic disease and undergoing joint replacement surgery.
Remix Therapeutics Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup developing small-molecule RNA modulators, said it has raised $65 million in series A financing led by Foresite Capital.
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Nanovibronix, Neovasc, Pear Therapeutics, Progenity, Rayzebio, Rewalk Robotics, Story Health.
Chinese biopharma Impact Therapeutics Inc. of Nanjing raised $50 million in a series C+ round on Nov. 30, two years after its $30 million series C round. Impact’s CEO Jun Bao told BioWorld that the majority of the proceeds would be used to take several programs forward. The financing round also paved the way toward an IPO.