$10M for Dekkun

Dekkun, a stealth-mode life sciences company operating out of Cambridge, MA-based HealthCare Ventures’ offices, has raised $9.9 million of an equity offering that could total $30.5 million, according to an SEC filing. The money comes from four investors, according to the filing, which lists members from HealthCare Ventures, a firm focused on pre-clinical or early clinical stage life sciences investments, as directors at Dekkun. Members of the firm were not available for comment on the deal, but we’ll be sure to update as we find out more about Dekkun.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.