UF Innovate Ventures has contributed to a series B round for StrideBio, partially based on research into gene therapies at University of Florida.
StrideBio, a US-based gene therapy developer exploiting research undertaken at University of Florida (UF) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, closed an $81.5m series B round yesterday backed by the former institution’s venture fund UF Innovate Ventures.
Pharmaceutical firm Novo and Northpond Ventures co-led the round, which also attracted biopharmaceutical companies Sarepta Therapeutics and UCB as well as pharmaceutical firm Takeda and life science real estate developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
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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.
