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Industrial Impact

Cellectis Inc. | February 19, 2022

Cellectis, a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies, and Calyxt, Inc. , a majority-owned subsidiary of Cellectis S.A., announced the placement to an institutional investor in an underwritten offering of (i) 3,880,000 shares of Calyxt common stock, (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 3,880,000 shares of its common stock, and (iii) common warrants to purchase up to 7,760,000 shares of its common stock. Read More

MedTech

Bionaut Labs | November 29, 2022

Bionaut Labs, the company that uses microscale robots to revolutionize the treatment of central nervous system diseases and disorders, announced $43.2M in a Series B round of financing led by Khosla Ventures, bringing the company’s total financing raised to date to $63.2 million. Also participating in the round are new investors Deep Insight, OurCrowd, PSPRS, Sixty Degree Capital, Dolby Family Ventures, GISEV Family Ventures, What if Ventures, Tintah Grace and Gaingels, along with all exis...

Sestina Bio | October 17, 2020

Sestina Bio, a new company creating a platform for automated synthetic biology, today announced that it has launched with seed funding from Foresite Capital, General Inception and OMX Ventures. The funds will be used to further the development of its digital cellular engineering and phenotyping platforms and support initial product development. The firm is the first company to launch from incubator Foresite Labs. Practitioners of synthetic biology aim to engineer novel living organisms -- usuall...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals | September 22, 2022

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced the appointment of two new members to the management team – Piyush Sharma as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer and Evan Lippman in the newly created role of Chief Corporate Development and Strategy Officer. Both executives will report to Chief Executive Officer, Yvonne Greenstreet. “Attracting and retaining top talent is one of my top priorities, and I’m thril...