ZafGen Scores $14M Series B

Anti-obesity drug developer ZafGen closed a Series B financing worth $14 million, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing. Third Rock Ventures and Atlas Venture supplied the funding for the Cambridge, MA-based startup, which Luke profiled in September.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.