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Heightened diligence standards and longer decision timelines for early-stage startups slowed venture activity last year, J.P. Morgan found in a report published ahead of the bank’s annual healthcare conference in San Francisco.
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After a strong open to the year, the public markets suffered a six-month drought that led to biotech’s tightest IPO window in years.
While Novartis secured the biggest deal of the fourth quarter, a handful of riveting tales emerged from the bottom of the M&A list, including a zombie buyout and a bidding war. And no, we’re not talking about Metsera.
Four of this year’s biggest acquisitions topped 11-figure figures. One was 2025’s messiest bidding war.
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EIB and German specialty pharmaceutical company PAION AG have signed a EUR 20 million loan agreement
The European Investment Bank will lend up to €20 million to PAION AG, a German pharmaceutical company specialised in anaesthesia and sedation drugs.
The company is working on developing therapies for neuropsychiatric diseases. Karuna is expecting data from a Phase II clinical trial later this year of KarXT xanomeline/trospium chloride, a muscarinic receptor modulator, to treat acute psychosis associated with schizophrenia.
BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 20,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share, as detailed in the company’s press release.
Velabs Therapeutics GmbH announced the closing of a €3 million Series B financing round to advance its functional antibody screening programme and to strengthen its own pipeline of preclinical functional antibodies against diseases with poor treatment options.
NOXXON Pharma N.V. announced that the annual general shareholders meeting held on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Strawinskylaan 10, 1077 XZ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands approved all voting items.
Polarean Imaging plc, the clinical stage medical-imaging technology company, with a proprietary drug-device combination product for the visualisation of pulmonary function in the magnetic resonance imaging market, announces its audited final results for the year ended 31 December 2018.
Two of this week’s biotech startup initial public offerings, BridgeBio and Adaptive Biotechnologies, have market values exceeding the magic $1 billion mark, and have recently launched initial public offerings (IPOs), but also increased their fundraising goals.
Esperion and an investor group led by Oberland Capital Management LLC announced a $200 million capped, tiered, revenue-based funding agreement on net revenues of bempedoic acid and the bempedoic acid / ezetimibe combination tablet.
Evotec SE announced that the Company successfully issued a Schuldschein of EUR 250 m on the capital market.
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 3,375,527 shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $200.0 million, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by GBT.