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News and Trends 14 Sep 2022

SparingVision raises €75M for genomic medicines for ocular diseases

SparingVision, a genomic medicine company developing vision-saving treatments for ocular diseases, has raised €75 million ($75 million) in series B financing. The round was co-led by Jeito Capital and UPMC Enterprises, with additional participation from 4BIO Capital, Bpifrance, the RD fund, venture arm of Foundation Fighting Blindness, and Ysios Capital. Proceeds from the financing will […]

September 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

WhiteLab Genomics raises $10M for AI-powered genomic therapies platform

WhiteLab Genomics has announced the completion of a $10 million funding round. The round was led by French venture capital firm Omnes Capital, and Debiopharm, a Switzerland based biopharmaceutical company with a venture arm focused on digital health. WhiteLab Genomics said it aims to “revolutionize genomic therapy development” using public and private data and in-house […]

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Optics11 Life receives €5 million in funding for drug development

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Arpeggio Biosciences raises $17M in Series A funding to support drug pipeline

Arpeggio Biosciences has raised $17 million in series A funding in a round led by Builders VC. Support for the U.S.-based preclinical therapeutics company making technology targeting transcriptional dysregulation in disease, also came from its seed round investors. These include Khosla Ventures, TechU Ventures, FundersClub, Alice Zhang, and Fifty Years, as well as new participants […]

September 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Aldatu gets grant to develop Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever test

U.S. biotech company Aldatu Biosciences has been awarded a $3 million Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will fund the advancement of the company’s proprietary PANDAA technology platform and its specific application to the […]

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Scope Biosciences and WUR to improve CRISPR-Cas technology with new funds

Wageningen University & Research (WUR), and its spinoff Scope Biosciences, have received a grant of €150,000 ($152,000) from the European Research Council (ERC). The grant is to further research and enhance the diagnostic technology ScopeDx. This is based on CRISPR-Cas technology. Uniquely, this technology is able to quickly and accurately recognize viral or bacterial RNA. […]

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Cytiva launches BioChallenge in Southeast Asia to support biotech startups

Cytiva has launched its BioChallenge competition in Southeast Asia to help small to medium sized biotech companies in the fields of cell engineering, process development, as well as isolation and purification. Winners of the BioChallenge will be awarded up to SG$200,000 ($142,000) in FastTrak services so that they can scale up efficiently, mitigate risks, and […]

September 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology

Onego Bio is a biotech spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The company uses a commercially proven Trichoderma technology to solve environmental problems associated with eggs, one of the world’s most used animal proteins. Onego Bio said its sustainable and cost-effective precision fermentation method produces ovalbumin, the most abundant egg white protein, and […]

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

From tobacco to table – cell-cultured meat venture receives $10M funding to scale-up production

Cell cultured meat could now be produced on a broader scale thanks to funding of $10 million invested in the Israeli start-up BioBetter Ltd. Food-tech BioBetter Ltd., received the significant injection of capital in its series A round of funding which was led by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) with additional investment from Milk and Honey […]

September 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Omnio receives funding for wound treatment

Swedish company Omnio AB has shown plasminogen is a pro-inflammatory regulator of inflammation that can be used to treat chronic wounds with dysfunctional inflammation. The company, a spin off from Umeå University, said the drug could mean a global treatment revolution for wounds that never heal. Non-healing chronic wounds are a major global health problem […]

September 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Cultivated Biosciences raises $1.5M to take fats to the next frontier

Cultivated Biosciences, an ingredient startup biotech company founded by Swiss entrepreneurs Tomas Turner and Dimitri Zogg, has just raised a $1.5M pre-seed round. The funding will enable the growing team to further optimize its production processes, research food applications and start product development of its creamy ingredient for dairy alternatives from non-GMO yeast with their […]

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 7 Sep 2022

The biggest private biotech investments in August 2022

The healthcare-focused companies Orna Therapeutics, F2G and Sironax bagged the biggest biotech investments in August 2022, with mRNA vaccines, genomics and fermentation technology attracting big funding rounds. As many took a well-deserved vacation in the month of August 2022, the world of biotech remained busy with fundraising. Sit back and browse our lists of the […]

September 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Pleco Therapeutics raises €17.3M to develop AML product

Pleco Therapeutics BV, a specialty biopharmaceutical company in the Netherlands developing novel treatments designed to detoxify the cancer micro-environment has raised total funds of €17.3 million ($17.2 million) in series A financing. The funds will be used to complete development of, and to commercialize, the company’s novel lead Plecoid product, PTX-061, to improve the effectiveness […]

September 6, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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SparingVision raises €75M for genomic medicines for ocular diseases

WhiteLab Genomics raises $10M for AI-powered genomic therapies platform

Arpeggio Biosciences raises $17M in Series A funding to support drug pipeline

Aldatu gets grant to develop Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever test

Scope Biosciences and WUR to improve CRISPR-Cas technology with new funds

Cytiva launches BioChallenge in Southeast Asia to support biotech startups

Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology

From tobacco to table – cell-cultured meat venture receives $10M funding to scale-up production

Omnio receives funding for wound treatment

Cultivated Biosciences raises $1.5M to take fats to the next frontier

The biggest private biotech investments in August 2022

Pleco Therapeutics raises €17.3M to develop AML product

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