Axovant Sciences
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| Sep 26, 2017 | Roivant receives bad news — and so does SoftBank | Last month, SoftBank, through its massive Vision Fund, led the single biggest private financing round for a healthcare company ever — funneling $1.1 billion into the drug holding outfit Roivant Sciences. Today, the Japanese conglomerate mig... |
| Aug 9, 2017 | Roivant, which creates companies around abandoned drugs, just raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank | Roivant Sciences, a three-year-old, Basel, Switzerland-based company aiming to one day be a giant holding company for dozens of independent biopharmaceutical companies, has raised $1.1 billion in equity led by the SoftBank Vision Fund — mak... |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Axovant hires ex-Medivation CEO as it nears Phase 3 Alzheimer’s readout | That pipeline and commercialization experience could go a long way at Axovant. Indeed, Wall Street seemed pleased with the announcement. Axovant shares surged 27 percent on Monday morning following the news. Ramaswamy, a 31-year-old former ... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | The Phase 3 Alzheimer’s company few have heard of | The company had two lucky breaks, which, ironically have in some ways backfired in terms of awareness and credibility. The first is that its active compound didn’t require lengthy clinical trials. As a result, many wrote it off as an unprov... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Weekly Roundup: Claims surface on Trump’s dealings with Russia, Yahoo splits into Altaba | As part of the Verizon acquisition, Yahoo has split itself into an investment unit called Altaba and is now waiting for Verizon to undertake its remaining assets. Amazon announced a plan to create 100,000 U.S. jobs, and memos about Trump’s ... |
| Jan 6, 2017 | The billion-dollar pharma startup that Silicon Valley has totally missed | When it comes to millennials and healthcare companies, recent history gives plenty of reason for pause. Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, has watched her star fall precipitously over the last year, amid a continuing drumbea... |
| Dec 29, 2016 | Ambitious young biotech group establishes global headquarters in Basel | |
| Oct 27, 2016 | Myovant Sciences rallies $218 million biotech IPO | At the heart of Myovant’s impressive stock price is an agreement with Takeda Pharmaceuticals, which traded global rights to its small molecule relugolix for minority shares in the company and future royalties. Takeda will retain commercial ... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | The biotech IPO feast flags as investors lose their appetite for R&D risk | There was a time after the 2008 crash that biotech IPOs were about as popular as snow in March. But from 2013 through 2015 generalist investors got over their fears and jumped into one of the hottest stock games on the planet. Fund... |
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FAQ about Axovant Sciences
When was Axovant Sciences founded?
Axovant Sciences was founded in 2014.
What has the press written about Axovant Sciences?
Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Axovant Sciences, among them “Roivant receives bad news — and so does SoftBank” (Sep 26, 2017) and “Roivant, which creates companies around abandoned drugs, just raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank” (Aug 9, 2017).
Is Axovant Sciences still active?
Axovant Sciences is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 6, 2017.