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Thrasos Secures $21 Million to Complete Phase 2 Study of THR-184 in the Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury and Expand the Company's Renal Portfolio

Thrasos Secures $21 Million to Complete Phase 2 Study of THR-184 in the Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury and Expand the Company's Renal Portfolio

With these funds Thrasos will accelerate the development of its technology for Chronic Kidney Disease and position THR-184 for the next step in clinical development

MONTREAL, March 31, 2015 –Thrasos Therapeutics, a biotherapeutics company focused on delivering new solutions for kidney disease, today announced that it has completed a $21M Series D financing led by BDC Capital and SR One with participation by all current investors. Thrasos' Board of Directors will be expanded with the addition of Ela Borenstein, Managing Partner at BDC Capital Healthcare Venture Fund.

Thrasos Therapeutics - 03/31/2015

A drug that could raise IQ - Balance Therapeutics raises $18M, conducting Down Syndrome trials

MedCity News, March 19, 2015 - Stanford spinout Balance Therapeutics just raised $18 million for its therapy that could raise the IQ of people with intellectual disability. It’s using a small molecule drug that has been around for decades – GABA-A antagonists – but rationalizes the approach by delving deeper into the molecular underpinnings of what causes diseases like Down Syndrome and dementia.

And it could improve the IQ of a person with Down Syndrome 10 to 20 percent.

Balance Therapeutics - 03/19/2015

CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Raises $37.1 Million in Series C Preferred Stock Offering

Durham, NC, January 13, 2015/PRNewswire/ -- CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it has completed a $37.1 million Series C preferred stock offering.  The financing was led by TVM Capital Life Science, based in Montreal and Munich,and included participation from new investors Novo Ventures and Auriga Partners. All of the Company’s existing investors also participated in the Series C, including Pappas Ventures, Domain Associates, Care Capital, Triathlon Medical Ventures and Pearl Street Ventures. Joining the board of directors will be Dr. Luc Marengere from TVM Capital Life Science and Dr. Martin Edwards from Novo Ventures.

CoLucid Pharmaceuticals - 01/13/2015

Lumena Pharmaceuticals Raises $45 Million in Series B Financing

Funding to support clinical development of treatments for rare cholestatic liver diseases and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

SAN DIEGO – March 11, 2014 – Lumena Pharmaceuticals (Lumena), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel products for rare cholestatic liver diseases and serious metabolic disorders, today announced that it has secured $45 million in Series B financing. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the financing, with Adage Capital Management and RA Capital Management participating and joining existing investors Pappas Ventures, RiverVest Venture Partners and Alta Partners. Founded in 2011 by Pappas Ventures, Lumena will use the funding to advance the clinical development of LUM001, its lead product candidate, for the treatment of rare cholestatic liver disease in pediatric and adult patients, as well as LUM002 for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Lumena Pharmaceuticals - 03/11/2014

Marina Biotech Announces $6 MM Convertible Preferred Stock Financing and Conversion to Common Stock of the Company's Promissory Note

Company to Advance Its Preclinical and Clinical Rare Disease Programs

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Feb 24, 2014) - Marina Biotech, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MRNA), a leading oligonucleotide-based drug discovery and development company focused on rare diseases, announced today that it has entered into a binding term sheet with certain qualified investors, led by Steven T. Newby, a long-time biotechnology investor, for the issuance of convertible preferred stock at a conversion price equivalent to $0.75 per share of common stock resulting in gross proceeds of $6 million. In addition, the Company will issue to the investors warrants to purchase 6 million shares of common stock. The warrants will have an exercise price of $0.75 per share and are exercisable for a period of five years after the Company regains compliance with its reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act. The offering is expected to close on or about March 7, 2014, subject to the execution of a customary Securities Purchase Agreement regarding the transaction and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The Company also announced that the holders of the Company's Promissory Note have agreed to convert the remaining principal and interest on the Note to common stock at a conversion price of $0.75 and release their lien on the Company's intellectual property. Proceeds from the financing will be used to restart certain day-to-day operations, repay the Company's outstanding obligations, regain compliance with the Company's Exchange Act reporting obligations and advance the Company's preclinical and clinical rare disease programs.

Marina Biotech - 02/24/2014

Thrasos Secures $35 Million to Fund THR-184 Phase 2 Clinical Program for Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury

 

MONTREAL, October 25, 2012 – Thrasos Therapeutics announced that it has completed a $35 Million (U.S.) financing for the development of THR-184, its lead product candidate for the treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI). The round was led by new investor, SR One, with funds coming from the GSK Canada Life Sciences Innovation Fund, part of GlaxoSmithKline’s commitment to advance the development and commercialization of scientific innovation in Canada. Five additional new investors and existing investor, SW Co, joined in the round. The new investors were Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Lumira Capital, MP Healthcare Venture Management and Pappas Ventures. With the financing, Thrasos plans to advance THR-184 through Phase 2 clinical proof of concept in AKI.

Thrasos Therapeutics - 10/25/2012

CardioDx Completes $58 Million Equity Financing

 

CardioDx Completes $58 Million Equity FinancingProceeds to Support Commercial Expansion of Corus CAD and New Product Development

PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 27, 2012 – CardioDx, Inc., a pioneer in the field of cardiovascular genomic diagnostics, today announced the completion of a $58 million two-tranche equity financing. The financing included Temasek, an Asia investment company based in Singapore; and existing investors Longitude Capital; Artiman Ventures; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; J.P. Morgan; Mohr Davidow Ventures; TPG Biotech; Intel Capital; Acadia Woods Partners; Bright Capital; the venture arm of RU-COM; Pappas Ventures; DAG Ventures; Asset Management Group; and GE Capital. All previous investors participated in the round.

Proceeds from the financing will be used to support the commercial expansion of Corus® CAD, the only clinically validated gene expression test for obstructive coronary artery disease, and to develop additional genomic diagnostics in the field of cardiovascular disease.

“This funding positions CardioDx well to capitalize on the significant opportunity to improve the diagnosis of the millions of patients who visit their physicians with symptoms suggestive of obstructive coronary artery disease each year,” said David Levison, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “The favorable Medicare coverage decision that we received earlier this month is a significant milestone that further validates the clinical benefit of and economic rationale for Corus CAD. This additional capital will help us expand our sales force in the U.S., further broaden reimbursement coverage, and support continued investments in research and development of new products.”

CardioDx recently announced that Palmetto GBA, a national contractor that administers Medicare benefits, has established coverage for the Corus CAD gene expression test for the evaluation of patients presenting with typical and atypical symptoms suggestive of coronary artery disease. With this decision, the Corus CAD gene expression test is now a covered benefit for more than 40 million Medicare enrollees in the U.S.

Studies have shown that typical and atypical presentations of stable chest pain account for up to two percent of outpatient office visits each year in the U.S., which equates to up to three million patients per year in the Corus CAD intended-use population. However, a study of nearly 400,000 patients published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2010 reported that as many as 62 percent of stable patients who undergo elective invasive angiographic procedures are found to have no obstructive coronary artery blockage, despite broad usage of prior noninvasive imaging. The authors concluded that current modalities used to identify patients for elective invasive angiography to diagnose obstructive coronary artery disease have limitations, and that better methods are needed for patient risk stratification.

As much as $5 billion is spent on noninvasive testing, imaging and elective invasive angiography in the Corus CAD intended-use population annually in the U.S.

CardioDx - 08/27/2012

Tesaro raises $81M in a rare IPO success story

 

June 29, 2012

Just two years after getting started, the experienced cancer pros at Tesaro ($TSRO) have pulled off a successful IPO--a rarity in an industry that has been starved of IPO cash since 2007. On Thursday Tesaro made the switch to a public company, started trading at the middle of its range and actually went up a bit by the end of the day.

Tesaro, though, is different from many of the biotechs making a risky leap into the public markets these days. Its executive team, led by Lonnie Moulder, orchestrated the $3.9 billion sale of MGI Pharma. At Tesaro, they quickly raised $101 million in their second round, executing on a series of in-licensing deals for experimental cancer drugs.

There was one strategy in its IPO game plan that Tesaro shares with other newly public biotechs. It gained commitments from its insiders to buy up to $25 million in shares, helping to give its stock a boost as it came out of the gate.

The biotech--a 2011 Fierce 15 company--ended up selling 6 million shares at $13.50 a share, within its $12 to $15 range, raking in $81 million. Then it bumped up 1.4% by the end of the day. VC backers include New Enterprise Associates, set to become the largest shareholder with 39% of the stock, as well as Kleiner Perkins, Caufield Byers and Venrock.

Tesaro nabbed niraparib, a cancer drug in Merck's ($MRK) pipeline, recently. It has also in-licensed rolapitant and pushed the cancer treatment into a Phase III study, with an eye to delivering top-line data in the second half of next year. An IND for TSR-011 as a new therapy for non-small cell lung cancer, in-licensed from Amgen ($AMGN) in the spring of last year, is being prepped for filing in the second half.

TESARO - 06/29/2012

Diabetes drug developer Lumena raises $2.5M; compound regulates blood sugar

 
February 21, 2012

Diabetes treatment developer Lumena Pharmaceuticals has secured the $2 million it needs to start clinical trials and a little bit extra for good measure.

The company’s first round of investment was oversubscribed, leading to a haul of $2.5 million, according to amended filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lumena’s investors are venture capital firms Pappas Ventures and  RiverVest Venture Partners. The new capital means the company can proceed to human tests for its novel type 2 diabetes treatment, which aims to develop a pill to help patients regulate their blood sugar.

Lumena Pharmaceuticals - 02/21/2012
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