Tech Company Financing Transactions

Agensys Funding Round

Alta Partners, Bear Stearns Health Innoventures and OrbiMed joined a $42.8 million funding round for Agensys. The round was recorded on 3/5/2002.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
3/5/2002
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$42,800,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

Alta Partners (Lead Investor) (Farah Champsi)

Bear Stearns Health Innoventures (Lead Investor) (Elizabeth Czerepak)

OrbiMed (Lead Investor) (Carl Gordon)

H&Q Asia/Pacific

HBM Healthcare Investments

Proceeds Purpose
Proceeds from the financing will be used to generate therapeutic human antibodies to treat several different types of solid tumor cancers and advance them into clinical development, equip and operate the company's in-house clinical scale antibody manufacturing plant, continue the company's successful target discovery and validation programs, and for general corporate purposes.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
1545 17th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
USA
Email Address
Overview
Agensys, Inc. is developing a pipeline of therapeutic fully human monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to treat solid tumor cancers based on its own proprietary targets.
Profile
Agensys LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Agensys Company Twitter Account
Company News
Agensys News
Facebook
Agensys on Facebook
YouTube
Agensys on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Donald Rice
  Donald Rice LinkedIn Profile  Donald Rice Twitter Account  Donald Rice News  Donald Rice on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Paul Kanan
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Chief Scientific Officer
Aya Jakobovits
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VP - Bus. Development
Christopher Morl
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