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Galecto Announces First Patient Treated in Phase 2a Trial of the Oral LOXL2 Inhibitor GB2064 in Myelofibrosis (the MYLOX-1 Trial)
Galecto, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLTO), a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel treatments for fibrosis and cancer, today announced the treatment of the first patient in a Phase 2a trial of its oral LOXL2 inhibitor GB2064 in myelofibrosis. Myelofibrosis, a...
Synendos Therapeutics Expands Series A to CHF 24 million with new investment
Synendos Therapeutics is thrilled to announce an extension to the Series A financing with the addition of Ysios Capital to its syndicate of European investors. Ysios Capital’s contribution brings the total raised to CHF 24 million, following a Series A financing...
Alligator Bioscience and MacroGenics Enter into a Research Collaboration to Develop a Novel Immunotherapy
Alligator Bioscience (Nasdaq Stockholm: ATORX) today announced that it has entered into a joint research collaboration with MacroGenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGNX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative monoclonal antibody-based...
Step Pharma Raises EUR35 Million in Series B Financing to Advance First in Class CTPS1 inhibitor into the Clinic in T Cell Malignancies
Step Pharma, a biotech company developing novel drugs for oncology and autoimmune diseases, today announced the successful closing of a EUR35 million Series B financing. New investors Hadean Ventures and Sunstone Life Science Ventures co-led the round, joining...
Alligator Bioscience appoints Søren Bregenholt as new CEO
Alligator Bioscience (Nasdaq Stockholm: ATORX) today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Søren Bregenholt, Ph.D. as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), to strengthen Alligator’s business development activities and clinical progress on an...
Ascelia Pharma has carried out a directed new share issue raising SEK 200 million
Ascelia Pharma AB (publ) (ticker: ACE) (“Ascelia Pharma” or the “Company”) has successfully carried out a directed new share issue of 5,000,000 ordinary shares at a subscription price of SEK 40 per share, subject to the approval of an Extra General Meeting (the...
Zealand Pharma completes registration of capital increase
Zealand Pharma A/S announces that it has today, as part of completion of a directed issue and private placement (the "Offering"), registered with the Danish Business Authority, the capital increase of DKK 3,600,841, divided into 3,600,841 ordinary shares (the "New...
Alligator Bioscience’s rights issue oversubscribed
Alligator Bioscience AB (publ) (“Alligator” or the “Company”) has completed the share issue with pre-emption rights for the Company’s shareholders, which was resolved upon by the Board of Directors on December 15, 2020 pursuant to the authorization from the annual...
IO Biotech Completes Oversubscribed EUR 127 Million Series B Financing to Accelerate Clinical Programs in Oncology
IO Biotech, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, immune- modulating anti-cancer therapies based on its proprietary T-win® technology, announced today that it has raised EUR 127 million in Series B financing. Press inquiries should be adressed...
Articles Archive
Why would you do a US IPO?
We recently compared EUR >50M M&A’s of VC funded EU and US drug developing companies and concluded that a substantial difference exists between the EU and US (https://bit.ly/3uftQmU). Previously we have also looked at EU M&A’s before or after an IPO....
M&A multiples in the US – should you go west?
Sunstone has previously investigated the return multiples of venture capital funded companies HQ’ed in Europe (https://bit.ly/3n0bd3B) and concluded that when the total invested amount exceeds EUR 50M, the return multiple tends to stay below 5 in M&A transactions....
Best country for sourcing new deals?
Do you also in your mind have a priority list of destinations to visit once the world normalises and you can get back on a plane? If so, and if you are a Venture Capitalist, you may also be wondering which countries have been creating most Life Science M&A...
Why are we investing in Drug Development and hesitating with regards to Medical Devices or Diagnostics?
Part of the answer is obviously that our past experiences and successes fall within Drug Development – but also that both MedTech and Diagnostics seem to have a lower likelihood of getting to an exit once you have invested. Defining the field for Medical Devices and...
Increasing the investor return multiple with an IPO?
For private company M&A the multiple stayed below 5x after a company had raised more than EUR 45M (https://bit.ly/36dPAVy). We have now added 12 European M&As completed after an IPO. The figure below shows the “Grand return multiple”, i.e. our calculation of...
To IPO… or not to IPO
We have recently added 12 venture funded companies to our M&A analysis of European therapeutic companies acquired post-IPO. As expected, those companies were acquired at a later developed stage. As previously highlighted most European venture capital funded...
Modest interest in Human Safety!?
We have previously highlighted that most European venture capital funded therapeutic companies are acquired after receiving less than EUR 45M in venture capital funding. It also appears that companies are acquired either before EUR 10M have been invested or after an...
The best VC’s for developing Therapeutics in Europe?
The VC’s investing in Europe can be ranked by the number of times they have participated in a EUR >50M M&A of a company developing therapeutics. In Sunstone’s analysis of the 56 M&As that took place in the period 2010-2020, 243 named investors participated....
Beating the odds
What do you think? Let us know in our feed on LinkedIn: Using Pitchbook® we have identified 56, EUR >50M, M&A transactions of VC funded companies developing therapeutics from 2010 to 2020 and have modelled the investor cash flow in each of the companies....
Are antibody-based therapeutics and venture capital a bad mix?
Sunstone monitors and analyzes all M&A transactions for therapeutic companies HQ’ed in Europe, with an exit transaction value exceeding EUR 50M. Upon fragmenting the 43 transactions executed between 2010 and 2020 by modalities, we were surprised to observe that...
Are big financing rounds and venture star multiples a realistic expected outcome?
Like many of our colleagues, our initial investment hypothesis is always to achieve a 5-10x return when we invest. When achieved, these are often referred to as the stars, performers or unicorns of a venture capital portfolio. Sunstone continuously monitors and...
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