Finance Watch: Big Money For Private Biopharma As Start-Up Areteia Raises $350m
Qiming Ventures’ New VC Funds Total $3.2bn
Executive Summary
Private Company Edition: As venture capital funding continues at a robust pace relative to public company financings, Knopp Biosciences and Population Health Partners launched Areteia with enough cash to fund Phase III asthma trials and Qiming revealed new VC funds totaling $2.5bn and $700m.
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