Lilly Asia Ventures has returned for a series C round that boosted the total raised by the cancer and metabolic disease drug developer to $100m.

China-based oncology and metabolic drug developer InventisBio has completed a $70m series C round featuring Lilly Asia Ventures, a corporate venture capital subsidiary of pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly.

The round was co-led by private equity fund Advantech Capital and financial services provider CMB International Capital Corporation and included asset management firm Pudong Innotek and OrbiMed Asia, a fund run by healthcare investment firm OrbiMed.

InventisBio is developing therapeutics to treat cancer and metabolic disease, and has advanced drugs for breast…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.