Sector updates in August

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Investment firms 

  • venBio has raised $528M to invest in biotech companies across all stages working on diseases with unmet needs 
  • TPG has raised $580m for its Life Science Innovations fund to assist emerging life science companies in advancing breakthrough technologies to clinical proof-of-concept 
  • Terumo Ventures has launched with $75m dedicated to medtech startups working in cardiovascular and chronic diseases as well as digital technologies 
  • Balderton Capital has raised $1.3bn across two funds to invest in high-growth technology companies including digital health, across the UK and Europe  
  • redalpine has raised $200 million for its seventh European investment fund to invest in innovative companies across varying sectors including AI, planetary health, health tech and data solutions, and infrastructure 
  • Campbell Murray, previously of Agent Capital and Novartis Venture Fund, has joined Bioluminescence Ventures as Senior Partner 

 

Analysts/Banking 

  • Lachlan Towart, previously of UBS wealth management, has joined Lombard Odier Investment Managers as Senior Global Equity Analyst 

 

Media    

  • Annalee Armstrong has left her role as Senior Editor at FierceBiotech and has been appointed Senior Editor at BioSpace 
  • Amber Tong has left her role as Senior Editor at Endpoints News and there is no news on her next role 
  • Carissa Wong has been appointed Health Reporter at New Scientist 
  • Helen Thomson has left her role as Head of Features at New Scientist to go freelance 
  • Eve Simmons has been appointed Health Editor at MailOnline 
  • Laren Shirreff has been appointed Health Features Writer at The Daily Telegraph 
  • Gian Volpicelli has left his role as Technology Reporter at POLITICO and there is no news on his next role