Tag Archive for: Venture Capital

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Perceptic has raised a $12 million (€10.3 million) seed round to advance an AI operating system used by companies including CSL.

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Isomorphic Labs has raised $2.1 billion (€1.8 billion) to further develop its artificial intelligence engine and advance drugs discovered using the platform.

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Infex Therapeutics has raised £4.3 million (€4.95 million) to advance an anti-infective pipeline led by a midphase drug candidate.

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Scarlet Therapeutics has raised £3.2 million (€3.7 million) to take therapies based on red blood cells (RBCs) to in vivo proof of concept, building on evidence that natural and lab-grown cells have comparable half-lives.

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Cytospire Therapeutics has raised a £61 million (€71 million) Series A round, positioning the British biotech to advance pan-gamma-delta T-cell engagers (TCEs) into cancer clinical trials.

With the launch of Servier Ventures announced in January and a €200 million commitment to biotech investment, Servier is stepping up its engagement in early-stage ­innovation in oncology and neurology. European Biotechnology Magazine spoke with ­Alexis Vandier, Global Head of Servier Ventures, about the fund’s strategy, investment ­focus, and ­Europe’s role in the global biotech ecosystem.

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Kurma Partners has closed Biofund IV at €215 million, giving European biotech founders a meaningful new source of capital even though the vehicle came in below the €250 million target Kurma set when it launched the fund in October 2024. At first close, Kurma had raised €140 million and said Biofund IV would back 16 to 20 companies, building on the strategy it used in earlier funds.

Spain has launched a US$200m venture capital fund anchored in Boston to help Spanish biotech companies scale in one of the world’s foremost life sciences ecosystem. The initiative includes a new trade office in Massachusetts and around US$57m in public seed capital.

Sofinnova Partners has closed its new investment fund, Capital XI, at €650m, far exceeding its original target. The early-stage biotech and medtech-focused fund will invest mostly in Series A, but also seed financings of companies, including oncology, inflammation and immunology, CNS, and cardio-metabolic diseases.

VC investments in biotech rose 70.9% in Q3 2025 to US$3.1bn, driven by Series D growth, M&A activity, and Fed interest rate cuts, reports Global Data. J.P. Morgan reports same trends but different figures.