Ex­clu­sive: Women’s health biotech Freya Bio­sciences rais­es $38M for mi­cro­bial im­munother­a­pies

Freya Bio­sciences, a Dan­ish and US biotech named af­ter the Norse god­dess of fer­til­i­ty, has raised a $38 mil­lion Se­ries A, the clin­i­cal-stage start­up told End­points News ex­clu­sive­ly.

The Copen­hagen and Boston start­up, formed dur­ing the ear­ly days of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, will use the fund­ing to test its in­ves­ti­ga­tion­al donor- and strain-de­rived mi­cro­bial im­munother­a­pies.

“If we can shift the mi­cro­bial ecol­o­gy, we have that cor­re­spond­ing shift in the im­mune pro­file, which would then have an ef­fect on these quite se­vere in­di­ca­tions that are down­stream of this in­flam­ma­tion that aris­es in the re­pro­duc­tive tract,” CEO Colleen Acos­ta said in an in­ter­view with End­points.

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