Venture Funding Deals: Orchard Therapeutics Spreads Its Roots
Executive Summary
Rare disease gene therapy play Orchard added new investors in an oversubscribed Series B raising $110m and therapeutic antibody developer Allakos raised $100m in its Series B round, while Obsidian raises $49.5m for next-generation cancer cell therapies in Series A.
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