Tech Company Financing Transactions

Zag Bio Funding Round

Zag Bio, based in Cambridge, secured $80 million from JDRF T1D Fund, Polaris Partners and AbbVie Biotech Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
10/28/2025
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$80,000,000
Round
Series A
Investors

JDRF T1D Fund (Lead Investor) (Sylvia Tobé)

Polaris Partners (Lead Investor) (Alan Crane)

AbbVie Biotech Ventures (Christian Schubert)

Boxer Capital

KdT Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Shelley Chu)

Mission BioCapital (Johannes Fruehauf)

Pear VC

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Sanofi Ventures

Proceeds Purpose
The proceeds from the financing will be used to advance Zag Bio's lead program into the clinic as a tolerogenic therapy to prevent or delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Life Sciences
Mailing Address
Undisclosed
Cambridge, MA Undisclosed
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Not Recorded
Overview
Zag Bio� has discovered a novel approach to create thymus-targeted medicines to treat and prevent autoimmune diseases by restoring central immune tolerance. Zag Bio designs bifunctional antibodies that deliver self-antigens to antigen-presenting cells in the thymus to harness the body's natural process for training immune cells to recognize and tolerate self, halting or preventing autoimmune attacks on the body's own tissues.
Profile
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Social Media
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Company News
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Facebook
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YouTube
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Jason Cole
  Jason Cole LinkedIn Profile  Jason Cole Twitter Account  Jason Cole News  Jason Cole on Facebook


 

 

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