Public Company Edition: 2020 started with two $200m-plus initial public offerings plus five health care-focused special purpose acquisition corporations IPOs. Also, a Pfizer initiative backs three public companies, Fate’s $432m offering led recent FOPOs and Biocon Biologics receives more investment. 

Arix Biosciences has unveiled three significant changes to the organization, including the appointment of Christian Schetter as co-managing director, which the healthcare-focused venture capitalist hopes will keep its impressive record of biotech investments on track.

A review of biopharma start-up dealmaking and financing activity from October through December 2019, based on data from Strategic Transactions, showed a large rise in fundraising transactions from Q3 to Q4 of last year.

Alliance with Molecular Templates may help advance efforts under Vertex’s existing collaboration with CRISPR Therapeutics. Dragonfly’s latest partner for its TriNKET platform is AbbVie.