Australian radiopharmaceutical company Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced its IPO on the Nasdaq to raise $200 million to advance its late-stage radiopharma candidates. Headquartered in Melbourne, Telix has operations in the U.S., Europe (Belgium and Switzerland) and Japan with an extensive pipeline of theranostic radiopharmaceutical candidates.
Life sciences venture capital company, Brandon Capital, announced the first close of its sixth fund for AU$270 million (US$180 million) during the 2024 Biotechnology Innovation Organization International Convention in San Diego. Fund VI will see Brandon Capital continue to seed new Australian and New Zealand life sciences startups, as well as advance its expansion into international markets, particularly in the U.K., Europe, and the U.S.
South Korean digital health care firm Seers Technology Co. Ltd. is targeting a ₩22.1 billion (US$16.2 million) IPO on the Korea Exchange, after upping the offering price of its 1.3 million shares to ₩17,000 per share on June 4.
Bright Peak Therapeutics Inc. has raised $90 million in a series C financing. Proceeds will be used to accelerate a pipeline of next-generation immunotherapies and advance BPT-567 into a phase I/IIa trial.
Amber Therapeutics Ltd. has raised $100 million in a series A funding round to further develop its implantable closed-loop bioelectrical therapy to treat women suffering from mixed urinary incontinence. The financing is one of the largest series A rounds ever seen in Europe’s medical technology space and comes at a time when many med-tech companies are struggling to raise funds.
The med-tech industry has maintained its financing momentum into May, with the first five months of 2024 raising $12.7 billion, marking a 42% increase from $8.95 billion during the same period in 2023. Notably, May alone saw $5.05 billion in total med-tech financings, a 307% rise from $1.24 billion in April, and the highest monthly total reported by BioWorld MedTech since November 2022.