Start-Up Quarterly Statistics: A Record-Breaking Q2 As Financings Surge
Executive Summary
Biopharma start-ups had a record-breading quarter in terms of fundraising. A review of biopharma start-up deal-making and financing activity from April through June 2018, based on data from Strategic Transactions.
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