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22.10.2024 | Seaport Therapeutics: $225 Million (Series B) Raised To Advance Novel Neuropsychiatric Medicines | Seaport Therapeutics—a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing novel neuropsychiatric medicines with a proven strategy and team—announced the closing of an oversubscribed $225 million Series B financing round. General Atlantic, a... |
21.10.2024 | Seaport Therapeutics Closes $225M Series B Financing Round | Seaport Therapeutics, a Boston, MA-based biopharmaceutical company that is developing novel neuropsychiatric medicines, raised $225M in Series B funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $325M, was led by General Atlantic, with ... |
11.06.2024 | QurAlis Expands Leadership Team With Doug Williamson, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer and Jason Brown, MBA, as Chief Financial Officer and Appoints Shafique Virani, M.D., to Board of Directors | Industry veteran Williamson brings nearly three decades' experience as a leader in neuroscience R&D at organizations including Eli Lilly and Company, Lundbeck, Parexel, and Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Former Karuna CFO Brown brings more than... |
22.05.2024 | Carbon Biosciences Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board | - Carol Ann Satler, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FAAP joins the Board of Directors, adding key clinical experience to guide ongoing nonclinical development in cardiac and pulmonary diseases -
- Lloyd Klickstein, MD, PhD joins the Scientific Advisor... |
12.12.2022 | PureTech Founded Entity Sonde Health Raises $19.25 Million Series B for Voice-Based Health Monitoring | AI vocal biomarker company will use funding to accelerate its commercial growth, expand its platform into new health conditions, and enter new geographies
PureTech Health plc, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company, noted that its Founded... |
18.08.2022 | Through the lymph nodes it goes — researchers develop a cancer drug that avoids toxicities by skirting the liver | PI3K is a protein that is part of a pathway that regulates cell growth, survival and metabolism — earning it the inscription of master regulator for cancer. However, while a number of PI3K inhibitor drugs have been appr... |
10.11.2021 | PureTech Health plc PureTech Receives Approximately $100 Million from Sale of a Portion of Founded Entity Shares - Form 6-K | PureTech Health plc
PureTech Receives Approximately $100 Million from Sale of a Portion of Founded Entity Shares
PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) ("PureTech" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotherapeuti... |
05.10.2021 | PureTech Health : Founded Entity Vedanta Announces Positive Topline Phase 2 Data for VE303 in High-Risk C. difficile Infection and Exercise of $23.8 Million Option by BARDA | PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) (“PureTech” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company, is pleased to note that its Founded Entity, Vedanta Biosciences (“Vedanta”) today announced that its Phase 2 clinical tri... |
21.07.2021 | PureTech Health : Founded Entity Vedanta Biosciences Completes $68 Million Series D Financing | PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) (“PureTech” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company, announces that its Founded Entity, Vedanta Biosciences (“Vedanta”), completed a $68 million Series D financing and provid... |
26.05.2021 | PURETECH HEALTH PLC
PureTech Health : Founded Entity Akili Secures $160 Million in Financing; Poised to Deliver on the Promise of Digital Therapeutics | PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) (“PureTech” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company, today announced that its Founded Entity, Akili Interactive (“Akili”), has secured $160 million of combined equity and deb... |
15.04.2021 | PURETECH HEALTH PLC
PureTech Health : Announces Annual Results for Year Ended December 31, 2020 | PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) ("PureTech" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated medicines for devastati... |
15.04.2021 | PureTech Health : Announces Annual Results for Year Ended December 31, 2020 | PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) ("PureTech" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated medicines for devastati... |
02.03.2021 | PureTech Founded Entity Karuna Therapeutics Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 2, 2021--
PureTech Health plc (NASDAQ: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) (“PureTech” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated medi... |
23.09.2020 | News briefing: PureTech plans Nasdaq debut with secondary listing; GoodRx prices $725M IPO | London Stock Exchange-listed PureTech Health announced Wednesday that it’s looking to extend to Nasdaq. But due to its “strong cash position,” the biotech says it isn’t issuing any new shares in the potential secondary listi... |
27.08.2020 | PURETECH HEALTH PLC
PureTech Health : CONTINUE | 27 August 2020
PureTech Health plc - Half-Year Report
Strong regulatory, clinical and financial momentum across the Founded Entities and Wholly Owned
Pipeline, including three regulatory approvals and three clinical readouts, validate PureT... |
07.07.2020 | PURETECH HEALTH PLC
PureTech Health : Founded Entity Vor Biopharma Raises $110 Million in Series B Financing | Proceeds will advance the company's lead programme into clinical trials and expand the portfolio
Financing led by RA Capital Management, with Participation from Fidelity Management & Research Company, LLC, Pagliuca Family Office, Alexan... |
17.04.2019 | London listed PureTech Health joins forces with ninth big pharma partner — Boehringer Ingelheim | PureTech Health — which is developing therapeutics to tackle dysfunctions in the brain-immune-gut axis — is adding another big biopharmaceutical company, Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim, to its rich roster of partner... |
13.11.2018 | Pivotal Weight Loss Data for Gelesis100 Published in Obesity, Including Predictors of Response | 6 out of 10 of adults with overweight or obesity had a clinically meaningful response to Gelesis100, losing on average 10% of their weight (22 pounds) and nearly 4 inches from their waists. Adults treated with Gelesis100 had twice the odds ... |
14.03.2018 | PureTech Health snags $100M to fund affiliates; PolyPid takes a third stab at IPO | → London-listed, Boston-based PureTech Health has bagged $100 million (£72 million) in a placing to continue funding its biotech affiliates — a fairly diverse group that includes weight loss treatment developer Gelesis, a... |
19.12.2017 | Entrega Receives $5M Investment from Eli Lilly and Company | Entrega, a Boston, MA-based company focused on the oral delivery of complex molecules, such as peptides, that cannot currently be taken orally, received $5M equity and research funding from Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY).
The two compani... |
09.12.2016 | Study: Using a video game to spot early signs of Alzheimer’s gets positive clinical validation | Two years after forming a strategic collaboration, a double blind study by Akili Interactive Labs and Pfizer offered some encouraging findings for using a video game a screening tool to spot early signs of cognitive decline when patients ar... |
17.09.2016 | Here’s how wearables are being enlisted to study neurodegenerative diseases | The Michael J Fox Foundation is currently recruiting for a pilot study of Parkinson’s disease patients to evaluate the feasibility and compliance for patients to use wearable sensors to improve understanding of disease progression. It invol... |
22.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M to advance clinical trials as it readies for FDA application | Project: EVO is based on a platform technology exclusively licensed from the lab of Dr. Adam Gazzaley at the University of California, San Francisco. A pilot study of Project: EVO was shown to improve attention, inhibition and working memor... |
22.01.2016 | Akili Interactive Labs Nabs $30.5M for Digital Medicine Gamification | Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. (“Akili”), a company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment through gamification has raised $30.5 million in new equity funding. The inves... |
21.11.2015 | Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments | Other investments include Benchling, which develops collaborative tools for life science research, Glow, an ovulation tracking app developer, and Omada Health.
It also invested in Massive Health, a company founded in 2010 that helped diabet... |
18.03.2015 | Resource for scientists studying music and the brain enlists wearables, online music libraries | In an email, Sync Project co-founder Ketki Karanam provided a description of the project.
Participants in a study would download the project platform as an app. The app will play music and connect with wearable sensors to track their biolog... |
12.03.2015 | Can music ease pain? PureTech launches project to find out | Music therapy has been applied to a range of coditions, incuding patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative nerological conditions. GE Healthcare developed an iPad app last year to stimulate and engage with people with Alzheim... |
27.02.2015 | PureTech adds former Sanofi CEO to board | Among the 12 companies in PureTech’s pipeline are Akili Interactive Labs, which is a collaboration between game designers and neuroscientists to spot signs of the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions. Gelesis is de... |
09.01.2015 | PureTech Closes $50M Investment Round | PureTech, a Boston, MA-based science and technology R&D company tackling big problems in healthcare, closed a $50m growth stage investment round from existing investors.
This fundraising followed the $57m funding round of October 2014 (... |
09.01.2015 | PureTech closes $50M growth stage round to add more life sciences programs | Among the programs the company has helped establish are Follica, a clinical stage company using epithelial stem cell biology to develop novel treatments for baldness. Karuna is a clinical stage company that’s developing a therapeutic to tre... |
20.10.2014 | PureTech raises $55M to support medical device, digital health innovation | It launched Knode, in 2012. The search engine aggregates data from journals, patents and clinical trials and spits out that information for users searching for experts in any one discipline or condition. A search for Parkinson’s disease, fo... |
03.04.2014 | Convergence & unconventionality: One venture firm’s philosophy on early-stage innovation | Akili Interactive Labs, founded by PureTech along with UCSF cognitive neuroscientists and game designers, is an illustration of that. The startup made headlines earlier this year for striking a deal with Pfizer to test its mobile video game... |
- | PureTech raises $55M to support medical device, digital health innovation | PureTech, which has put itself squarely at the intersection of med tech and digital health innovation, has raised $55 million in a growth stage investment round, according to a company statement. It also added three senior partners from MIT... |
- | PureTech adds former Sanofi CEO to board | Science and technology research and development business PureTech, which has hatched programs spanning digital health and life sciences, has added former Sanofi CEO Christopher Viehbacher to its board, according to a company statement. It f... |
- | Study: Using a video game to spot early signs of Alzheimer’s gets positive clinical validation | This screenshot of Akili Interactive Lab’s ADHD treatment product Project: EVO is similar to the company’s Alzheimer’s disease screening tool but with distinct algorithms and sensory stimulus.
Despite the disappointments in the quest to dev... |
- | Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M to advance clinical trials as it readies for FDA application | This post has been updated with a comment from Akili Interactive Labs CEO.
Cognitive reasoning has been a particularly hot area for investment in digital health, particularly as companies explore the potential of interactive approaches to c... |
- | Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments | This week, Andreessen Horowitz said it’s launching a fund dedicated to investments in bioinformatics and “beyond the pill” technology. The venture capital firm had already gotten its feet wet with investments in these areas, but a dedicated... |
- | Here’s how wearables are being enlisted to study neurodegenerative diseases | Teva Pharmaceuticals’ collaboration with Intel this week to develop a way to track Huntington’s disease patients through a combined platform of wearables and machine learning platform is a fascinating development. The partnership underscore... |
- | PureTech to Present at The Barclays Global Healthcare Conference | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 3, 2021--
PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) ("PureTech" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly... |
- | PureTech Founded Entity Karuna Therapeutics Announces New England Journal of Medicine Publication of Data from EMERGENT-1 Phase 2 Trial Evaluating KarXT in Schizophrenia | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 25, 2021--
PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) (“PureTech” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated med... |
- | PureTech closes $50M growth stage round to add more life sciences programs | PureTech, a Boston-based life science research and development business that cultivates ideas across biotech, medical devices and digital health, raised an additional $50 million growth stage investment round from existing investors, accord... |
- | Resource for scientists studying music and the brain enlists wearables, online music libraries | The details of a PureTech project that will function as a hub for studies evaluating the impact of music on the brain were revealed at the South by Southwest Interactive conference this week. It offers a look at how clinical trials could be... |
- | Convergence & unconventionality: One venture firm’s philosophy on early-stage innovation | Daphne Zohar, the founder of PureTech Ventures, isn’t afraid to take big technical risks when it comes to funding new innovations. Nor is she necessarily put off by technologies that demonstrate clinical proof-of-concept without a clear exp... |
- | Can music ease pain? PureTech launches project to find out | A group of scientists want to explore the therapeutic potential of music, particularly for pain and fatigue, and they have set up a project to attract global collaboration. PureTech CEO Daphne Zohar is leading the initiative, according to a... |