Tech Company Financing Transactions

Arrakis Therapeutics Funding Round

Arrakis Therapeutics, operating out of Waltham, secured $75 million from Nextech Invest, venBio and Advent Life Sciences.

Transaction Overview

Announced On
4/19/2019
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$75,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Nextech Invest (Lead Investor) (Jakob Loven)

venBio (Lead Investor) (Richard Gaster)

Advent Life Sciences (Raj Parekh)

Alexandria Venture Investments

Canaan Partners (Colleen Cuffaro)

Celgene (Russell Petter)

GV

HBM Healthcare Investments

private investors (Henri Termeer)

Omega Funds

Osage Partners (Matthew Cohen)

Pfizer Venture Investments

WuXi AppTec

Proceeds Purpose
With this financing and outstanding syndicate of investors, Arrakis will leap to the next stage of realizing our vision of creating a new class of medicines with RNA-targeted small molecules, or rSMs.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
830 Winter St.
Waltham, MA 02451
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
The therapeutic potential of the human transcriptome, the set of all RNAs transcribed from DNA, remains largely unexplored. By harnessing new insights into RNA structure and dynamics, Arrakis is opening the transcriptome to therapy by small-molecule medicines to treat patients not cured by today's medicines.
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Gilman
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Chief Scientific Officer
Russell Petter
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Vice President
James Barsoum
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Vice President
Gnanasambandam Kumaravel
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VP - Bus. Development
Daniel Koerwer
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VP - Operations
Heather Lounsbury
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