Tech Company Financing Transactions

Strand Therapeutics Funding Round

Strand Therapeutics closed a $6 million Seed funding round on 6/5/2019. Backers included Playground Global, Alexandria Venture Investments and ANRI.

Transaction Overview

Announced On
6/5/2019
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$6,000,000
Round
Seed
Investors

Playground Global (Lead Investor) (Jory Bell)

Alexandria Venture Investments (Chris Otey)

ANRI

Proceeds Purpose
The company will use the proceeds to make key hires at its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, grow its pipeline of engineered gene therapies, and further develop its synthetic biology platform.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
237 Putnam Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
Strand was started by biological engineers working together at MIT. Building on the idea of creating smart therapies that are capable of making sophisticated decisions, they sought to apply the concept of the emerging field of mRNA therapeutics.
Profile
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Jacob Becraft
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Chief Operating Officer
Samta Kundu
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Co-Founder
Darrell Irvine
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Co-Founder
Ronald Weiss
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President
Tasuku Kitada
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