Finance Watch: Three New Life Science VC Funds Total Nearly $1bn

Private Company Edition: TVM, Focus/MD Anderson and RA Capital launched new venture capital funds. Also, LianBio’s $310m crossover financing, AavantiBio’s Sarepta-backed $107m series A and Sirnaomics’ $105m series D led recent VC rounds. 

Finance Watch

Three venture capital funds announced during the last two weeks of October have $989m to invest in life science companies, which should help keep the biopharmaceutical VC financing boom going beyond 2020. 

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