Start-Up Quarterly Statistics, Q1 2016
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Start-ups raised $1.8 billion in Q1 2016. Biopharma companies penned 33 alliances; 14 acquisitions were signed (11 in the biopharma industry).
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