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VC: Celladon pockets $30M



Celladon pockets $30 million in funds.

VENTURE CAPITAL

COMPANY

AMOUNT/ROUND

LEAD INVESTORS

DESCRIPTION

Celladon
La Jolla, CA

$30M
second

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

The funding will enable Celladon to complete preclinical testing and advance Mydicar, its product to improve calcium handling in failing hearts

Domantis
Waltham, MA

$29M
second

Novo Nordisk, MC Life Science Ventures

The financing will go to developing Domantis' twelve lead programs for treating major diseases including COPD, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and colorectal cancer

Optimer Pharmaceuticals
San Diego

$22.2M
fourth

ProQuest Investments

Money will go to development of PAR-101, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic to treat Clostridium difficile-related diarrhea

Cellartis
Sweden

8M euros
N/A

Bio Fund Management

The financing will allow Cellartis to accelerate drug discover and move forward with the company's planned international expansion

Lpath Therapeutics
San Diego

$6M
N/A

Roaring Fork Capital SBIC

Proceeds will move the company toward an IND filing of cancer drug Sphingomab and development of second product candidate.

AngioChem
Quebec

$6M
N/A

BDC Venture Capital

AngioChem expects to file an IND for the treatment of brain cancer in late 2006.


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