Adrian Gottschalk, Foghorn CEO (Foghorn)

Foghorn hits Nas­daq in $120M de­but as the biotech IPO boom shows no sign of slow­ing

It’s been a record year for biotech IPOs, and the ex­ecs at Nas­daq would like noth­ing bet­ter than to see that mo­men­tum con­tin­ue in­to the first half of next year.

Since Jan­u­ary, 72 biotech and bio­phar­ma com­pa­nies have hit Wall Street, ac­cord­ing to Nas­daq head of health­care list­ings Jor­dan Saxe, to­geth­er rais­ing $13.2 bil­lion.

The lat­est is Flag­ship’s Foghorn Ther­a­peu­tics, which priced its shares last night at $16 apiece, the mid­point of a $15 to $17 range. The Cam­bridge, MA-based biotech — which ini­tial­ly filed for a $100 mil­lion raise on Oct. 2 — is net­ting $120 mil­lion from a 7.5 mil­lion-share of­fer­ing. The pro­ceeds will go right in­to its gene traf­fic con­trol plat­form, in­clud­ing two lead pre­clin­i­cal on­col­o­gy can­di­dates.

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