89bio Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Bavarian Nordic AS is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of life-saving vaccines. The group is a supplier of mpox and smallpox vaccines to governments to enhance public health preparedness and has a portfolio of travel vaccines. The vast majority of the company's revenue is generated in the United States, Germany, and other geographic markets. Its products include Encepur, Jynneos, Rabipur, Vaxchora and Vivotif.

ABL Bio Inc is a Korean biotech research company. The company is engaged in the development of therapeutic drugs for immuno-oncology and neurodegenerative diseases. Its pipeline products include ABL001 an Bispecific Antibody, ABL201-205 an Antibody Drug Conjugate, T cell engager, Dual Immune Cell Targeting BsAb an Immuno-Oncology, ABL301 an BBB-Penetrating Bispecific Antibody.

China Resources Double-Crane Pharmaceutical Co Ltd is a China-based pharmaceutical company. It is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing a variety of medical products. The company's products cover different fields such as infusion field, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular fields, pediatrics, endocrine field and other areas.

Nektar Therapeutics is a clinical-stage, research-based biopharmaceutical company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and incorporated in Delaware, focused on discovering and developing medicines in the field of immunotherapy. The Company directs its efforts toward creating immunomodulatory agents that selectively induce, amplify, attenuate, or prevent immune responses to achieve desired therapeutic outcomes. Its pipeline of clinical-stage and preclinical-stage immunomodulatory agents targets the treatment of autoimmune diseases, including rezpegaldesleukin, NKTR-0165, NKTR-0166, and NKTR-422, as well as cancer, including NKTR-255.

Vera Therapeutics Inc is a clinical stage biotechnology company. It is focused on developing and commercializing transformative treatments for patients with serious immunological diseases. The company's product candidate is atacicept, a fusion protein self-administered as a subcutaneous injection once weekly that blocks both B lymphocyte stimulator and a proliferation-inducing ligand, which stimulate B cells and plasma cells to produce autoantibodies contributing to certain autoimmune diseases.

Cambrian Biopharma is a Seattle-headquartered biotechnology company advancing therapeutics to extend healthspan by targeting aging drivers. Operating as a Distributed Development model, it funds parallel programs addressing mitochondrial function, protein homeostasis, and cellular senescence. Key pipeline assets include small molecules for ALS and Parkinson's that repurpose for preventive longevity use. Founded in 2020, Cambrian partners with academic labs and contract manufacturers to de-risk programs before clinical stages. The firm raised Series A funding in 2021 to support five preclinical candidates entering trials by 2024.

Mineralys Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines to target diseases driven by abnormally elevated aldosterone. The company's product candidate, lorundrostat, is a proprietary, orally administered, selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor, that is initially developed for the treatment of patients with uncontrolled hypertension, defined as individuals who are unable to achieve BP of below 130/80 mmHg despite taking two or more lines of antihypertensive medication or resistant hypertension, typically including a diuretic.

SELLAS Life Sciences Group Inc is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for a broad range of cancer indications. The company's product candidates currently include galinpepimut-S, or GPS, a peptide immunotherapy directed against the Wilms tumor 1, or WT1, antigen, and GFH009, a selective small molecule cyclin-dependent kinase 9, or CDK9, inhibitor.

Granules India Ltd is an India-based pharmaceutical company. The company manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients, pharmaceutical formulation intermediates, and finished dosages. It has one segment Pharmaceutical products including ingredients and intermediaries. Its primary geographic markets are North America, Latin America, Europe, India, and the Rest of the World. The company generates a majority of its revenue from its business outside India.

Viridian Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that engages in developing multiple product candidates to treat patients who suffer from thyroid eye disease. Its product candidate includes Veligrotug (formerly known as VRDN-001) for intravenous (IV) and VRDN-003 for subcutaneous (SC) administration. Veligrotug is a differentiated humanized monoclonal antibody targeting IGF-1R intravenously administered for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED).

Acrobiosystems Co Ltd is a global brand focusing on protein technology, products and services in the development of biological drugs. It is committed to providing target antigens and other key reagents and related services required in the development of targeted therapeutic drugs.

Harmony Biosciences Holdings Inc is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapies for patients living with rare neurological diseases who have unmet medical needs. The company has one reportable segment: rare neurological diseases. Its product WAKIX (pitolisant) is a molecule with a novel mechanism of action specifically designed to increase histamine signaling in the brain by binding to H3 receptors and is used for the treatment of cataplexy in adult patients with narcolepsy. The other drug candidates in its pipeline are Pitolisant, HBS-102 (MCHR1 antagonist), BP1.15205 (orexin-2 receptor agonist), ZYN002 (cannabidiol gel), EPX-100 (clemizole hydrochloride), and EPX-200 (lorcaserin), among others.

Sinocelltech Group Ltd is engaged in development and industrialization of biopharmaceutical products such as monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins and vaccines. The company has developed technology platforms in protein expression vectors, cell line development, serum-free medium development, stoichiometrically controlled fed-batch cell culture, process scale-up, and protein purification. Its capacities include stable CHO cell line development, cell banking and certification, serum-free and protein-free culture medium development, fed-batch cell culture process development, optimization, and process scale-up; protein purification development, and large scale production.

Joincare Pharmaceutical Group Industry Co Ltd is an integrated pharmaceutical company, the business scope covers healthcare products, APIs, final dosage forms, prescription drugs, OTCs, Chinese traditional medicine, chemical drugs, and testing agents. APIs are antibiotic series and their intermediates 7ACA, 4AA and F9. Prescription drugs focus on the realms of the digestive tract, a blood vessel of heart and brain, infection, tumor, nervous cerebrovascular section, urinary system etc. OTCs include gastrointestinal drug Dele-Livzon, Live Bifidobacterium Preparation, oral ulcer drugs Yiketie, cold medicine Antiviral Oral Granule, External use skin medicine.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc is a specialty pharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in developing and commercializing products for the treatment of central nervous system diseases, including neurological and psychiatric disorders. Its diverse neuroscience portfolio includes approved treatments for epilepsy, migraine, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), hypomobility in Parkinson's Disease (PD), cervical dystonia, chronic sialorrhea, dyskinesia in PD patients receiving levodopa-based therapy, and drug-induced extrapyramidal reactions in adult patients. The company's products include Trokendi XR, Oxtellar XR, Qelbree, APOKYN, XADAGO, MYOBLOC, GOCOVRI, and Osmolex ER.

Sail Biomedicines engineers precision medicines using circular RNA technology called Endless RNA combined with programmable nanoparticles. Cambridge, Massachusetts-headquartered and founded in 2022, the platform designs targeted therapies for oncology, infectious diseases, and genetic disorders. Sail's approach leverages natural lipid components for enhanced delivery and protein expression. The company collaborates with research institutions on preclinical candidates advancing toward clinical trials.

Insitro is a drug discovery company integrating machine learning with high-throughput biology to identify novel therapeutic targets. South San Francisco-headquartered and founded in 2018, it generates functional genomic datasets from bioengineered cell models aligned with patient clinical data. Insitro's predictive models accelerate small molecule development for diseases like oncology and fibrosis. The company collaborates with pharmaceutical partners on precision medicine programs using its industrial-scale wet lab facilities.

Orano Med is a Maisons-Alfort-headquartered developer of targeted alpha therapies for prostate and other cancers using bismuth-213 and lead-212 isotopes. Part of the Orano nuclear group, the company produces chelating agents and ensures isotope supply chains from facilities in France and Belgium for clinical-stage treatments.