The immunotherapy developer plans to go public in the United States having raised $565m from investors including Eli Lilly and WuXi AppTec.
Month: January 2021
Sensei looks to master public markets
Cambrian Biopharma is the largest investor in cancer immunotherapy developer Sensei Biotherapeutics, which has filed to raise up to $100m.
Xianshenghuo gets series A delivery
New Hope Group’s logistics spinoff has secured $92.4m in a round featuring Longfor Group’s investment arm, Longfor Capital.
Verve Therapeutics turns to $94m series B
Novo and existing backer GV participated in a round that lifted the heart disease drug developer’s overall funding to more than $215m.
Dunzo raises $40m Google-backed round
The last-mile delivery platform has amassed $121m in overall funding having completed a series E round featuring existing investor Google.
DeHaat rakes in $30m for series C
Prosus Ventures led an AgFunder-backed series C round for the agricultural goods and services provider it looks to expand its presence across India.
AltPep unpacks series A funding
University of Washington spinout AltPep will use the proceeds from the Alexandria Venture Investments-backed round to advance a lead asset targeting Alzheimer’s disease.
Sub-sector: oil and gas
State of the market
Emerging Asia would be an attractive market for digital energy investments
Comment from Vinod Kala and Joydeep Bose, Asia Energy Labs
India is leaping ahead in clean energy
Comment from Vivek Wadhwa, distinguished fellow, Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program
Transport drives forward on a rough road
Sector report: Transport
Business model shifts in electric vehicles to focus on batteries
It is expensive to build cars, especially electric ones with few signs they can be profitable outside selling carbon offset credits to polluters.
Shifting the clock forward from year zero
Global Energy Council Q1 2021 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Letter from the Global Energy Council chairwoman
Foreword by Lisa Lambert, chief technology and innovation officer, National Grid, founder and president, National Grid Partners