GSK fathers Kurma Biofund II

Jun 21, 2013 • Quentin Carruthers

UK-pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has joined with France-based venture capital investment firm Kurma Life Sciences Partners, bpifrance (France’s public investment bank), Idinvest Partners and investment fund New Enterprise Associates to launch Kurma Biofund II: The Orphan Initiative. The first closing of the fund has reached €44m ($58.2m) out of a target total of €75m ($99.3m).

The fund will invest in treatments and innovations within the field of rare diseases, of which there are 6000 – 7000, affecting 1 in 2000…

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