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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...

Orphazyme’s arimoclomol receives US Fast Track Designation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | May 22, 2020

Orphazyme A/S (ORPHA.CO), a biopharmaceutical company pioneering Heat-Shock Protein response for the treatment of neurodegenerative orphan diseases, announces that the Company has received Fast Track Designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the...

VAXIMM Announces Results from VXM01 Phase I/II Combination Trial with PD-L1 Inhibitor Avelumab to be Presented at ASCO20

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | May 14, 2020

14 May 2020, VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced that the safety run-in results from a Phase I/II study in progressive glioblastoma with its lead product candidate, oral VXM01, in combination...

Patent for Oncoral approved in Japan

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Apr 16, 2020

Ascelia Pharma AB (publ) (ticker: ACE) (“Ascelia”) today announced that the patent application for Oncoral has been approved in Japan. The approval in Japan adds to the already obtained patents in the US and a selected number of countries in Europe and China. The...

Susanne Rydberg utses till ny VD för Arcoma AB

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Apr 15, 2020

Styrelsen i Arcoma har utsett Susanne Rydberg till ny Verkställande Direktör. Susanne Rydberg har lång erfarenhet från ledande positioner, senast nu som VD för Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Sweden AB och dessförinnan som verksamhetschef för Lindes Nordeuropeiska...

Sunstone announce new investment in immuno-oncology company STipe Therapeutics

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Sep 30, 2019

Sunstone Life Science Ventures today announce it has invested in new portfolio company Stipe Therapeutics ApS (“STipe”), an immuno-oncology company dedicated to developing novel cancer therapeutics based on its first class drugs modulating the STING pathway.

Zealand Pharma achieves primary and all key secondary endpoints in pediatric Phase 3 trial with dasiglucagon for severe hypoglycemia

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Sep 24, 2019

Zealand Pharma A/S (“Zealand”) (Nasdaq: ZEAL), a Copenhagen-based biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative peptide-based medicines, announces positive results in the pediatric Phase 3 trial with dasiglucagon for severe hypoglycemia...

Sunstone makes €5 million investment into Finnish women’s health company Forendo Pharma to finance clinical studies in endometriosis

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jul 17, 2019

Sunstone Life Science Ventures today announced its first investment out of its Life Science Ventures Fund IV into Forendo Pharma, a Finnish clinical stage drug development company focusing on novel treatments in women’s health. The investment is designated to finance...

Sunstone makes a non-revocable commitment to sell all shares in Nuevolution at a price of SEK 32.5 per share to Amgen, corresponding to SEK 332 million

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | May 22, 2019

Sunstone today announced that its Life Science Ventures Fund I has made a non-revocable commitment to sell all shares in Nuevolution AB at a price of SEK 32.5 per share. Nuevolution has been part of Sunstone’s portfolio since 2007 and Sunstone has played an active...

Trading in Ascelia Pharma’s shares on Nasdaq Stockholm commences tomorrow

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Mar 12, 2019

Nasdaq Stockholm AB has today decided to admit the shares of Ascelia Pharma AB (“Ascelia Pharma” or the “Company”) for trading on Nasdaq Stockholm with first day of trading tomorrow, Wednesday 13 March 2019. The shares will be traded under the ticker ACE and ISIN...

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