Five months, $98.5M and a PhII drug from No­var­tis lat­er, Ma­gen­ta Ther­a­peu­tics is floor­ing it

Last No­vem­ber, Ma­gen­ta Ther­a­peu­tics end­ed a year of self-im­posed start­up si­lence with a hefty $48.5 mil­lion Se­ries A and a bur­geon­ing team of in­ves­ti­ga­tors fo­cused on cord blood stem cell ther­a­pies. To­day, just a lit­tle more than 5 months lat­er, it’s adding $50 mil­lion in Se­ries B cash from some mar­quee in­vestors that in­cludes the ven­ture group for­mer­ly known as Google and in-li­cens­ing a mid-stage drug that No­var­tis clear­ly thinks high­ly of for en­hanc­ing cord blood stem cells as a treat­ment.

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