HONG KONG – Olix Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised ₩41.5 billion (US$37.90 million) to support the company’s U.S. expansion and advance its pipeline globally.
COVID-19 has shined a spotlight on the vast potential of digital health, from pandemic response to how clinicians protect and care for patients. Now, Israel-based venture capital firm OTV has closed a $170 million fund aimed at fueling future growth in digital health technologies. In conjunction with the closing, OTV also reported that it has changed its name from Olive Tree Ventures and named Jose Antonio Urrutia Rivas as head of Asia Pacific operations.
Genesis Therapeutics Inc. CEO and co-founder Evan Feinberg likens the collaboration of his company’s team of chemists, biologists and software developers to that of a jazz band. Everyone has to be familiar with everyone else’s roles and responsibilities in order to do their job, or play a solo, when it’s their turn.
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.