Biotech venture capital off to a $659m start in 2015
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Just six days into 2015, the US biotechnology industry already is halfway to the $1.1bn in venture capital raised during the first three months of 2014, including a $48m Series B round for Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT), a $65m Series D for Seres Health and a $20m Series C for CytomX.
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