Medicxi's new $300m venture fund will benefit from the expertise of former GSK R&D leader Moncef Slaoui, while ex-CEO Witty will inform portfolio strategy at Hatteras. Also, Kaleido hires past Cubist CEO and brings VC funding to $65m, while Gilead sells $3bn in debt to fund Kite deal.
Former CEO Andrew Witty and former vaccines business chief and research and development head Moncef Slaoui both left GlaxoSmithKline PLC this year, and on Sept. 19 it was announced that they've both joined venture capital firms as partners to help guide health care and biopharmaceutical investments.
Witty is a venture partner at Hatteras Venture Partners headquartered in Durham, N.C., and Slaoui has been a partner at...
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