Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e6b95ef-3465-4621-ab2d-2cde46afa403 Date 8/19/2016 Company Name Happify Mailing Address 584 Broadway New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description Build skills for lasting happiness: Happify turns the latest innovations in the science of happiness into activities and games that help you lead a more fulfilling life. Website http://www.happify.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Happify Garners $5,000,000 New Round”
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Stash Garners $9,250,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=50e03022-cd97-4c91-8706-71f33d6a0838 Date 8/19/2016 Company Name Stash Mailing Address 44 West 28th Street New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description Our solution, the Stash app, starts with you. That’s because we believe that even if you aren’t an expert investor, you have interests, beliefs, and goals that relate to investing. We wanted to … Continue reading “Stash Garners $9,250,000 Series A Financing”
Goop Secures $10,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=44461bd8-9887-4fd1-ae2b-8d078ef98e99 Date 8/19/2016 Company Name Goop Mailing Address 745 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10151 USA Company Description On goop, the ever-evolving intent is to make every choice count. We’re all resource strapped, so we hope to surface the very best experiences, recipes, products, and advice. Website http://www.goop.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Goop Secures $10,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Swee10 Lands $1,310,736 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8dba6964-58da-450a-8ffe-949a9598050a Date 8/19/2016 Company Name Swee10 Mailing Address 195 Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002 USA Company Description We’ve hand-selected only the best interior designers, architects, and contractors to help you create the space of your dreams. Here’s how Sweeten works: Once you post your project, we analyze and tag it with … Continue reading “Swee10 Lands $1,310,736 New Round”
EasyVista Receives $8,400,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=73648b3e-593e-49ed-8b37-c5fe86076dd6 Date 8/19/2016 Company Name EasyVista Mailing Address 3 Columbus Circle 15th Floor New York, NY 10019 USA Company Description EasyVista is reinventing service management for the mobile user — making it easy to deliver and easy to use. EasyVista is a service management platform that automates and personalizes service delivery for … Continue reading “EasyVista Receives $8,400,000 New Funding Round”
Dexter Receives $2,300,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e135fe52-49ef-452e-ac90-d9333e249f8a Date 8/19/2016 Company Name Dexter Mailing Address 29 Little West 12th New York, NY 10014 USA Company Description The Dexter platform executes thousands upon thousands of processes daily, integrating services for everything from complex marketing flows to simple slash commands in Slack. Apps are executed on-demand in a provisionless environment — … Continue reading “Dexter Receives $2,300,000 Seed Round”
In Cholesterol Drug Price Fight, Real Message Is “Wait Til Next Year”
The authors of a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association argue that the new wave of cholesterol-fighting drugs, hailed as a big medical step forward when they launched last year, should cost 70 percent less than their current list price to be worth the trouble prescribing them. The drugs’ owners, … Continue reading “In Cholesterol Drug Price Fight, Real Message Is “Wait Til Next Year””
Change of the Guard as Women 2.0 Deepens Its Ties to the East Coast
Women 2.0 is on the move, bringing its act in a big way to New York state. The San Francisco-based network and social platform for women technology entrepreneurs is getting a new boss and relocating its headquarters to just outside of Syracuse, NY. Today, CEO and co-founder Shaherose Charania announced she transferred ownership and the leadership … Continue reading “Change of the Guard as Women 2.0 Deepens Its Ties to the East Coast”
CRISPR and More at Boston’s Life Science Disruptors Oct. 20
It wasn’t too long ago that the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 was just a tool for research labs, not companies developing drugs. But that’s all changed, and now it’s on companies like Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:NTLA]]) to write the next chapter of what could be one of the most important biotech stories of the century. … Continue reading “CRISPR and More at Boston’s Life Science Disruptors Oct. 20”
Pharma’s Productivity Problem: Finding More Blockbuster Drugs
A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The authors made the point that, given the size of companies today, a single garden-variety blockbuster hardly moves the needle. … Continue reading “Pharma’s Productivity Problem: Finding More Blockbuster Drugs”
Vettery Garners $9,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5feba3fc-5c63-47de-80c0-1805f337ac21 Date 8/17/2016 Company Name Vettery Mailing Address 37 E. 18th Street 9th Floor New York, NY 10003 USA Company Description Software is eating the world, and has chewed right through the traditional recruiting process – wait, no it hasn’t. Being able to identify, hire, and celebrate the recruiting process hasn’t changed … Continue reading “Vettery Garners $9,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Byte Academy Obtains $2,670,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c4f66744-7910-42ed-be2a-4b111a1f7487 Date 8/17/2016 Company Name Byte Academy Mailing Address 295 Madison Ave 35th Floor New York, NY 10017 USA Company Description Byte Academy is a coding bootcamp that offers intensive industry focused programs. We emphasize full-stack programming using Python code with the option to be industry focused with bootcamps in FinTech, Data … Continue reading “Byte Academy Obtains $2,670,000 Series A Financing Round”
Xylem Moves Into Smart Metering Business with $1.7B Sensus Deal
Water technology company Xylem is getting into the business of real-time monitoring of water and energy consumption through a $1.7 billion deal to acquire smart meter company Sensus. Rye Brook, NY-based Xylem (NYSE: [[ticker:XYL]]) announced the agreement—an all cash deal—this morning. Sensus, based in Raleigh, NC, sells to utilities hardware and software used for so-called … Continue reading “Xylem Moves Into Smart Metering Business with $1.7B Sensus Deal”
Bio Roundup: Precision Med and Google, Heron, Lilly, Sarepta & More
The wait continues. An FDA ruling on a Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug from Sarepta Therapeutics—which could be the first ever approved for the disease—has been imminent for a while now, yet Labor Day is fast approaching and still the saga drags on. Speculation abounds, from analysts and pundits, each giving different opinions as to whether … Continue reading “Bio Roundup: Precision Med and Google, Heron, Lilly, Sarepta & More”
Lua Technologies Obtains $1,385,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2506452d-f7ab-4aef-acf1-6994bc9d670d Date 8/12/2016 Company Name Lua Technologies Mailing Address 900 Broadway New York, NY 10003 USA Company Description Lua is helping organizations work smarter and be more productive with a mobile-first enterprise communication solution that powers secure messaging, group calling, and file sharing. Website http://www.getlua.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,385,000 … Continue reading “Lua Technologies Obtains $1,385,000 New Round”
Productivity in Your Pocket
The app that you use is the one in your pocket. Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. It started with the Blackberry in the early 2000s. Like a dream, or a nightmare, e-mail—which is still the go-to work … Continue reading “Productivity in Your Pocket”
MIT’s Jacks Leans on Disney Family, Not VCs, to Hatch New Startup
Tyler Jacks is a cancer research pioneer, one of the co-chairs of the White House’s ambitious Cancer “Moonshot” initiative, and has helped advise a number of companies developing cancer drugs over the years. But only now is Jacks building a cancer drug maker of his own: a stealthy startup called Dragonfly Therapeutics. Dragonfly was formed … Continue reading “MIT’s Jacks Leans on Disney Family, Not VCs, to Hatch New Startup”
As U.S. Looks to Launch Precision Health Study, Google’s Role Emerges
The U.S. government has ambitious plans for a long-term health study with one million Americans, and one of the world’s most powerful tech companies has a big part to play, including the storage of all the data on its “cloud” servers. Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GOOG]]) and its wholly owned biotech R&D group, Verily … Continue reading “As U.S. Looks to Launch Precision Health Study, Google’s Role Emerges”
Viridis Garners $3,200,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cd497d2c-4163-4c04-872a-c0cee0ae3b87 Date 8/11/2016 Company Name Viridis Mailing Address 39 West 29th St. New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description Viridis aims to enhance the quality-of-life, through employability and retention, of 60% of the US workforce (and 80% of the global workforce). Website http://www.viridislearning.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,200,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Viridis Garners $3,200,000 Series A Round”
Comcast, VCs Pour $56M Into Virtual-Assistant Firm Interactions
Here’s an interesting trend worth watching: investors are pumping money into a variety of technologies aimed at improving businesses’ customer service operations. It’s not the sexiest of industries, perhaps, but we’ll all be thankful if these bets help smooth out what’s typically a frustrating and time-consuming experience for consumers. What’s even more compelling is the … Continue reading “Comcast, VCs Pour $56M Into Virtual-Assistant Firm Interactions”
First Access Secures $750,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e9af0fe1-c353-45ac-902e-c14a867132df Date 8/10/2016 Company Name First Access Mailing Address 601 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description First Access sells an instant, SMS-based recommended loan size, which serves as a proxy for a credit score in informal markets where there is no other alternative. Website http://www.firstaccessmarket.com Transaction Type Debt … Continue reading “First Access Secures $750,000 New Funding Round”
As Monster Gets Eaten by Dutch Firm Randstad, a Dot-Com Pillar Falls
Another dot-com era relic has been acquired for a pittance compared with what it was worth in its heyday. Monster Worldwide (NYSE: [[ticker:MWW]]), the parent company of job search website Monster.com, has agreed to be snapped up for $429 million by Randstad Holding, an Amsterdam-based firm that provides staffing and other human resources services. Under … Continue reading “As Monster Gets Eaten by Dutch Firm Randstad, a Dot-Com Pillar Falls”
How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri
Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. According to the Wall Street Journal, PFWTMs (“people familiar with the matter”) say the new device will look pretty much the same as the iPhone 6s. The biggest change: no more headphone plug. Customers who want to listen to music or podcasts on their iPhones will need … Continue reading “How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri”
Analysis: With a Tight Smile, Trump Details Economic Plan in Detroit
I wasn’t sure what to expect when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running-mate, Indiana governor Mike Pence, were the featured speakers at a Detroit Economic Club luncheon today. Trump has spent most of the summer lurching from one controversy to another, but in Detroit, he appeared to be well-coached and almost singularly focused … Continue reading “Analysis: With a Tight Smile, Trump Details Economic Plan in Detroit”
Cleave Bio Gets $37M From Celgene, Others For Clinical Push
Celgene has taken an interest in another budding biotech. The big Summit, NJ, drugmaker joined with a group of venture capitalists to give Cleave Biosciences a $37 million Series B round to help pay for the startup’s first human clinical studies. Burlingame, CA-based Cleave is developing an experimental cancer drug, CB-5083, that is currently in … Continue reading “Cleave Bio Gets $37M From Celgene, Others For Clinical Push”
Walmart Makes It Official, Acquires Jet.com for $3 Billion
After word leaked last night via Recode, Walmart officially announced Monday in an e-mailed statement that it has agreed to acquire Hoboken, NJ-based e-commerce site Jet.com for $3 billion cash, a strategic move touted by some as a way for the big box retailer to be more competitive with Amazon. Further sweetening the deal, Walmart said it will pay … Continue reading “Walmart Makes It Official, Acquires Jet.com for $3 Billion”
Celgene Passes on Acetylon as Another Option-to-Buy Deal Flames Out
The option-to-buy deal, in biotech, is a way to hedge a bet. A big firm will pay a fee for the right to acquire a smaller company later on, with the big bucks coming only if the acquisition is triggered. An option isn’t a guarantee, however; a big company can always pass on a buyout, … Continue reading “Celgene Passes on Acetylon as Another Option-to-Buy Deal Flames Out”
BrandYourself Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=20c37b51-d8b1-4318-a20e-9a56203c5a45 Date 8/8/2016 Company Name BrandYourself Mailing Address 214 Sullivan Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description We started BrandYourself to bring honesty and quality back to a broken industry. They were way too expensive for regular people, and refused to clearly describe their process. He couldn’t believe they … Continue reading “BrandYourself Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round”
Insert Garners $10,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f5ae0ea5-633b-46d1-a140-f520d1ab8166 Date 8/8/2016 Company Name Insert Mailing Address 1732 1St Ave. New York, NY 10128 USA Company Description Insert is the first automated in-app marketing platform. It offers a broad set of must-have features – Inserts – which can be launched into any live app in minutes, with no coding. Website http://www.insert.io … Continue reading “Insert Garners $10,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Merck Surges As Bristol’s Immunotherapy Drug Stumbles in Lung Cancer
Over the past few years, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck have brought to market two rival immunotherapy drugs, so-called checkpoint inhibitors, that have begun to change the way certain cancers are treated. But immunotherapy still has a long way to go, and Bristol provided the latest evidence Friday morning, when its drug, nivolumab (Opdivo), failed a … Continue reading “Merck Surges As Bristol’s Immunotherapy Drug Stumbles in Lung Cancer”
Biotech Roundup: Biogen Rumors, Theranos, Electro-Drugs & More
Biogen was once again all over the biotech newswire this week. First came a positive surprise; data that could set the stage for the first-ever drug approved for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare and debilitating muscle disease. Then came the rumor mill: Companies may or may not be approaching Biogen about a sale, and Biogen … Continue reading “Biotech Roundup: Biogen Rumors, Theranos, Electro-Drugs & More”
Why Teenagers Make Great Entrepreneurs
What is the ideal age to start a company? It’s a question that often circulates in the business press and on tech blogs. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have weighed in from time to time and their answers tend to fall into two camps. The first group advocates for the 20s as the optimal time. That’s … Continue reading “Why Teenagers Make Great Entrepreneurs”
New Schools Venture Fund Offering $7M More To Education Entrepreneurs
It’s still mid-summer, but in some districts where school starts in only a few weeks, teachers are already digging out their lesson plans and preparing to resume their classroom routines. But some of them would rather toss those lessons in the bin, and in fact, scrap the whole design of their schools and build new … Continue reading “New Schools Venture Fund Offering $7M More To Education Entrepreneurs”
Zeta Interactive Acquires Acxiom Impact, Gets Bigger in Silicon Valley
As Thursday comes to a close, Zeta Interactive has announced a new acquisition that increases its footprint in Silicon Valley. If that sounds like a familiar growth pattern for this New York-based big data and analytics company, it should. About a year ago, Zeta Interactive raised a $125 million round, and then several months later … Continue reading “Zeta Interactive Acquires Acxiom Impact, Gets Bigger in Silicon Valley”
FanDuel, DraftKings Return to NY as Fantasy Sports Laws Proliferate
The future of the online daily fantasy sports industry seemed in jeopardy toward the end of last year, after an insider trading-like scandal prompted intense scrutiny and triggered efforts nationwide to regulate or even shut down the companies in some states, like New York. What a difference a few months make. New York Gov. Andrew … Continue reading “FanDuel, DraftKings Return to NY as Fantasy Sports Laws Proliferate”
Foundry Group, Autodesk Lead $35M Deal With Formlabs in 3D Printing
Here’s the classic life cycle of an emerging technology: a big hype curve, a trough of disillusionment, and then slow but steady adoption. 3D printing looks to be right on schedule. Now, one of the leading startups in the sector is solidifying its position for the long haul. Formlabs, based in Somerville, MA, said today … Continue reading “Foundry Group, Autodesk Lead $35M Deal With Formlabs in 3D Printing”
Alcohol Delivery Firm Drizly Gulps $15M to Fend Off Amazon, Startups
In some ways, Drizly’s mobile app-enabled alcohol shopping service is so ’90s. “It’s going to sound kind of boring … but what we’re doing is very tech 1.0,” says Nick Rellas, Drizly’s co-founder and CEO. “We’re bringing a world of over $100 billion a year [in alcohol sales] that is almost entirely physically based, onto … Continue reading “Alcohol Delivery Firm Drizly Gulps $15M to Fend Off Amazon, Startups”
Spot.IM Secures $13,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0e922abe-379d-4acc-9286-102dd6a9e064 Date 8/4/2016 Company Name Spot.IM Mailing Address 79 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description Our goal is to join forces and help you build a social network of your very own, right on your site. We know you strive to create great content for your readers, and that … Continue reading “Spot.IM Secures $13,000,000 Series A Financing”
MikMak Secures $3,200,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=83b97046-50f4-4c0b-a27b-145a6eb6273b Date 8/4/2016 Company Name MikMak Mailing Address 49 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NY 11206 USA Company Description Watch short, shoppable videos that solve your everyday problems. Discover new products for beauty junkies, tech nerds, foodies and anyone in between. The more you watch, the more money-saving prizes you earn. Everything is priced … Continue reading “MikMak Secures $3,200,000 Seed Financing”
Ceros Lands $8,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=650286a9-de1b-493f-ba1c-51a616457cbf Date 8/4/2016 Company Name Ceros Mailing Address 151 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description Interactive content marketing software to create catalogs, lookbooks, magazines, infographics, and more without developers. Learn more about Ceros today. Website http://www.ceros.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds … Continue reading “Ceros Lands $8,000,000 Series B Funding”
FixtHub Receives Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dfea6dba-0e1a-4c12-a7f9-869d7bb98645 Date 8/4/2016 Company Name FixtHub Mailing Address 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 USA Company Description FixtHub is an enterprise software firm focused on aggregating and providing intelligence on the many disparate sources of information in fixed income markets. Website http://www.fixthub.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed … Continue reading “FixtHub Receives Series A Funding”
Birchbox Lands $15,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=39d55734-1d71-4469-9187-e78dc2a76588 Date 8/4/2016 Company Name Birchbox Mailing Address 28 E 28th Street New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description Try personalized samples with a monthly subscription, stock up on favorites in the Birchbox Shop, plus get ideas and inspiration to bring into your daily routine. Website http://www.birchbox.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Birchbox Lands $15,000,000 New Funding”
Axial Lands $14,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8d7cc61b-246a-445f-8966-f2a212bb7a23 Date 8/4/2016 Company Name Axial Mailing Address 902 Broadway 19th Floor New York, NY 10010 USA Company Description Axial is a marketplace where entrepreneurs access capital to grow or sell their company. Over $100M in total transaction volume closes each month on Axial. Axial focuses on serving entrepreneurs in the American … Continue reading “Axial Lands $14,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Pawn Shops Finally Go Digital, Helping Underbanked Find Quick Cash
In May and June, the financial industries that serve low-income Americans began to change in big ways. First, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed new rules for payday lenders. The first banned lenders from withdrawing money directly from their customers’ bank accounts, while the second restricted their ability to lend by imposing credit limits. Then … Continue reading “Pawn Shops Finally Go Digital, Helping Underbanked Find Quick Cash”
Shire Steps Back in Hemophilia Gene Therapy Race, Scraps Baxalta Drug
When Shire bought Baxalta earlier this year, one of the programs it inherited was a treatment that, at one point, was the leader in an emerging race to treat hemophilia with gene therapy. Competition has changed the landscape significantly, however, and now Shire has tossed that program onto the scrap heap. On a conference call … Continue reading “Shire Steps Back in Hemophilia Gene Therapy Race, Scraps Baxalta Drug”
Shoppable Garners $3,500,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=41e2ea5a-d9c9-4bef-82c8-2b57a31ad479 Date 8/3/2016 Company Name Shoppable Mailing Address 139 Fulton Street New York, NY 10038 USA Company Description Shoppable allows you to shop, sell, and save products from multiple retailers within one checkout—on any website or mobile application. Website http://www.shoppable.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,500,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds … Continue reading “Shoppable Garners $3,500,000 Series A Financing”
RightCapital Garners $1,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b2eddfd2-aabb-4990-a4ec-32f8a667a4d8 Date 8/3/2016 Company Name RightCapital Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10023 USA Company Description We created RightCapital with the goal of developing next generation financial planning software that advisors can use to simplify the financial planning experience for their clients. Website http://www.rightcapital.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “RightCapital Garners $1,000,000 Seed Financing”
Look Beyond Football to Fight Concussions
The New York Times reported last week that the NFL and USA Football had publicized inaccurate statistics about the efficacy of a training program called Heads Up Football in preventing concussions in youth football players. Officials at USA Football had to concede that they did not review the data from the study carefully and did not … Continue reading “Look Beyond Football to Fight Concussions”
More Gene Therapy Momentum as Startup Avrobio Grabs $25M From Atlas, SV
Gene therapy developers are on bit of a roll. Last week saw the release of promising data on gene therapies for hemophilia and the acquisition by Pfizer of a startup dedicated to the technology. And now another recently launched company, Avrobio, just grabbed a $25 million round of funding. The Cambridge, MA-based company was formally … Continue reading “More Gene Therapy Momentum as Startup Avrobio Grabs $25M From Atlas, SV”
Pfizer Continues Gene Therapy Push With $150M Bamboo Buyout
Pfizer is bolstering its growing gene therapy portfolio with a $150 million acquisition of Bamboo Therapeutics, the latest startup based on the research of one of the field’s pioneers, University of North Carolina Gene Therapy Center director Jude Samulski. Pfizer (NYSE: [[ticker:PFE]]) initially signaled its interest in Bamboo’s work in the first quarter, when it … Continue reading “Pfizer Continues Gene Therapy Push With $150M Bamboo Buyout”