Nextpoint Therapeutics Inc. closed an $80 million series B round to move two novel immune checkpoint inhibitor programs into clinical development in the coming year. The Cambridge, Mass.-based firm is planting a flag in an area of immune signaling that has been largely overlooked by drug developers until now.
Suzhou Singular Medical Co. Ltd. has raised “hundreds of millions of RMB” in a series B+ round financing, which was jointly led by SDIC Chuanghe Fund Management Co. Ltd. and Qiming Venture Capital Management (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
The eyes certainly have it. There are plenty of ocular gene therapies being studied in a crowded field and now there is a new one as Perceive Biotherapeutics Inc. has closed on a $78 million series B financing.
With $20 million raised in a series B round led by Brandon Capital and Tenmile, Aravax Pty Ltd. is poised to begin phase II trials of its immunotherapy, PVX-108, for peanut allergy.
With $20 million raised in a series B round led by Brandon Capital and Tenmile, Aravax Pty Ltd. is poised to begin phase II trials of its immunotherapy, PVX-108, for peanut allergy. “Our product is unlike other approaches that are in later stages of development, and those products generally use natural extracts from peanuts to treat peanut allergy,” Aravax CEO Pascal Hickey told BioWorld.
Apogee Therapeutics Inc. emerged from stealth with $169 million in financing and a pipeline of four preclinical antibody development programs that take aim at major immunological and inflammatory disorders.
Meccellis Biotech Group SAS reported closing an $8.25 million series B funding round to launch its biological implant technology on the US market. The exercise was supported by investment worth $5 million from Ocean Participations SAS alongside new funds from Volney Development SAS, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Co-Investissement SAS and the Poitou-Charentes business angel network Synergence Invest SAS.
While NASA gets the glory for exploration of the vast unknown of space, Bionaut Labs Ltd. hopes to reap similar fame by transforming travel through the brain with Bionauts, microrobots designed to deliver therapeutic payloads across the blood-brain barrier. To help achieve that mission, the company raised $43.2 million in a series B financing round led by Khosla Ventures.
Subtle Medical Inc. closed a series B financing to develop its artificial intelligence (AI) imaging enhancement solutions. Eastern Bell Venture Capital Management Co. Ltd. and Primavera Venture Partners lead this round of financing.
Zenas Biopharma LLC has raised $118 million in a series B round to support a global phase III trial of its lead asset as well as other immunotherapies for autoimmune diseases in its pipeline. The study, expected to begin in 2023, will evaluate obexelimab for the treatment of patients with immunoglobulin G4-related disease in late 2022.