Go­ing big: Biotech vets blast off with Ar­rakis on a new jour­ney of RNA ex­plo­ration

Michael Gilman and an ex­pe­ri­enced band of biotech vets are bust­ing out of stealth mode to­day with a start­up that marks the se­r­i­al en­tre­pre­neur’s third launch in 10 years. And he’s com­ing out in style, with a $38 mil­lion A round led by Canaan Part­ners.

Af­ter lit­er­al­ly stum­bling across the com­pa­ny while it was still in the white-board phase of de­vel­op­ment in 2015, Gilman says he was ripe for the chal­lenge and ad­ven­ture. And it’s a big one.

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