Versanis Bio secured $70 to commercialise a treatment licensed from Novartis, while Salesforce, Intel, Orange, Nike and Alphabet all celebrated exits.
Funding
Versanis Bio, a US-based developer a treatment for metabolic disease and obesity, completed a $70m series A round yesterday co-led by Atlas Venture and Medicxi, with participation from Aditum Bio. The latter established Versanis Bio with an undisclosed amount of seed financing to commercialise a therapy called bimagrumab that was in-licensed from pharmaceutical firm Novartis.
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Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
