Start-Up Quarterly Statistics, Q4 2015
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Start-ups raised $2.41 billion in Q4 2015. Biopharma companies penned 29 alliances; seven acquisitions were signed in the biopharma and diagnostics industries.
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