
Ex nihilo: Takeda leads $100M+ round to fund biotech's sneak attack on tumors, propelling new IL-2, CTLA-4 drugs to clinic
Since emerging out of stealth in 2018 with $30 million in launch money from Atlas and F-Prime, Akrevia has kept a relatively low profile, hammering away at its platform technology to design immunotherapies with all their potency but little of their side effects. With an official CEO in place for almost a year — and now a new name — the biotech is ready to step up with another $100.5 million to bring its two lead compounds into the clinic.
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