Mark Kotter, University of Cambridge

Sure, Bit Bio got some sig­nif­i­cant cash for its cell cod­ing work. But it’s the in­sid­ers who are back­ing them that will gar­ner the at­ten­tion

Mark Kot­ter’s syn­thet­ic bi­ol­o­gy team at Bit Bio has al­ready won lots of lo­cal recog­ni­tion in the UK for its tech for pre­ci­sion re­pro­gram­ming of stem cells at an in­dus­tri­al scale. Now they have a jolt of cash from some mar­quee US in­vestors to fu­el the work and dri­ve some added glob­al panache for the biotech’s pro­file.

The mon­ey — $41.5 mil­lion — isn’t like­ly to stir much at­ten­tion these days as bil­lions in cash con­tin­ue to course through the in­dus­try. These in­vestor names, though, as well as their in­ter­est in cell ther­a­py 2.0, should cre­ate a tin­gle of ex­cite­ment.

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