Finance Watch: Insilico Raises $255m To Take AI-Discovered Drugs Into The Clinic
Amplitude Closes CAD$200m ($162.3m) Precision Medicine Fund
Executive Summary
Private Company Edition: Nine new venture capital mega-rounds include Insilico’s series C, $250m from Blackstone for a CAR-T therapy spinout from Intellia and a $210m series B round for Umoja.
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