Bolt Bio­ther­a­peu­tics nabs $93.5M to push Provenge in­ven­tor's new idea deep­er in the clin­ic

A can­cer-fight­ing con­cept from the in­ven­tor of the first can­cer vac­cine is near­ing prime time, and its biotech de­vel­op­er has re­ceived a sig­nif­i­cant new in­fu­sion of cash to get it there.

Bolt Bio­ther­a­peu­tics an­nounced a $93.5 mil­lion Se­ries C round led by Sofinno­va In­vest­ments and joined by more than 9 oth­ers, in­clud­ing Pfiz­er Ven­tures and RA Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment. That mon­ey will go to­ward push­ing the San Fran­cis­co biotech’s plat­form of in­nate im­mune-boost­ing war­heads through its first tri­al on metasta­t­ic sol­id tu­mors and in­to sev­er­al more.

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