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This is where we share our own and our portfolio companies’ press releases as well as relevant Sunstone articles, analyses and SoMe posts.

5 latest press releases

Galecto Completes Enrollment in Phase 1b_2a GULLIVER-2 Trial of its Selective, Oral Galectin-3 Inhibitor GB1211 in Liver Cirrhosis

BOSTON, March 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Galecto, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLTO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel treatments for fibrosis and cancer, today announced it has completed enrollment in Parts 2 and 3 of its ongoing 3-part...

NEC OncoImmunity Acquires VAXIMM’s Neoantigen Vaccine Development Assets

NEC OncoImmunity (NOI), a subsidiary of NEC Corporation (NEC), and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing an oral plug and play DNA vaccination technology to stimulate patients’ cytotoxic T-cells targeting a wide range of cancer-related...

TargED Biopharmaceuticals raises EUR 39 Million in Series A financing to bring groundbreaking thrombolytic treatment to patients

TargED Biopharmaceuticals (“TargED”), a private biotechnology company focused on developing improved treatments for thrombotic diseases, today announces it has raised Series A financing of EUR 39 million to accelerate development of its lead compound, Microlyse. The...

MinervaX Provides Clinical Update on its Maternal GBS Vaccine

MinervaX, a privately held Danish biotechnology company developing a novel vaccine against Group B Streptococcus (GBS), today announces significant clinical progress on its maternal GBS vaccine. Press inquiries should be adressed to:   

Sunstone Life Science Ventures is looking for a Student Assistant

No longer accepting applications We are looking for a student to join our team for approximately 8 hours a week. As part of the team, you will play a pivotal role in the management of our deal flow, which lies in the order of 400-500 opportunities every year....

Who is in the driver’s seat of our industry?

A recent analysis from Pharma Intelligence | Informa 2021 highlights the current trends of pipeline products (top panel). We have subsequently surveyed Sunstone’s incoming deal flow for the same period and noted the correlation for the top 3 categories with oncology...

US IPO: Value recognition? Not really! Trading liquidity? Yes!

We previously looked at M&A of VC funded private and listed companies in the EU and US (https://bit.ly/3EU4n8H). Listing EU companies in the US is perceived as more attractive or beneficial – but is it reflected in the numbers? Recently, we decided to take a...

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...

Synendos Therapeutics Expands Series A to CHF 24 million with new investment

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Apr 20, 2021

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

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Apr 16, 2021

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

by Thomas | Mar 24, 2021

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

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Mar 19, 2021

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

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Mar 18, 2021

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

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Feb 1, 2021

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

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jan 27, 2021

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

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jan 13, 2021

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...

Ascelia Pharma gets US patent for 2nd generation Mangoral

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Dec 15, 2020

Ascelia Pharma AB (publ) (ticker: ACE) today announced that the US Patent Office (USPTO) has issued a new patent covering a second-generation formulation of lead drug candidate Mangoral, currently in the pivotal Phase 3 study SPARKLE. The new patent further...

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