Au­toim­mune biotech Kiniksa prices up­sized $152M IPO as Schol­ar Rock bags $75M for pre­clin­i­cal SMA drug

Two biotechs that have been on par­al­lel IPO tracks are blast­ing off with siz­able sup­port for their Nas­daq de­buts.

Kiniksa got the bulki­er raise among the two, reap­ing $152 mil­lion at $18 a share — up from the $126 mil­lion it was look­ing for — by of­fer­ing 8.44 mil­lion shares, or 21% more than orig­i­nal­ly planned. Schol­ar Rock, mean­while, got what it asked for, pric­ing its $75 mil­lion IPO at the mid­point of $14.

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Life Sciences Senior Associate

General Catalyst

San Francisco, CA, USA