Hummingbird Bioscience raises $125m in Series C financing
Danish Novo Holdings A/S has led an oversubscribed US$125m Series C into the cancer antibody specialist Hummingbird Bioscience.
Besides Novo Holdings A/S other new investors participated including Frazier Healthcare Partners, Octagon Capital, EDBI, AMGEN Ventures, DROIA Ventures, Morningside Ventures, Pureos Bioventures and Polaris Partners. Existing investors including SK Inc, Heritas Capital, and Mirae Asset Venture Capital also joined the round.
Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the clinical development of Hummingbirds lead assets including, HMBD-001, a best-in-class HER3 antibody for NRG1-fusion and HER3-driven tumors, and HMBD-002, a first-in-class anti-VISTA neutralizing antibody for advanced solid tumors. The funds will also be used to expand the capabilities of Hummingbirds proprietary Rational Antibody Discovery platform and progress the development of its next-generation pipeline of precision therapeutics including HMBD-009, a BCMA-TACI dual-specific T cell engager.