Jaguar, Sean Nolan's lat­est biotech, rais­es $139M as they fol­low Taysha's foot­steps

Joe Nolan swears he isn’t try­ing to hur­tle Jaguar Gene Ther­a­py to­ward a 0-to-60 IPO, but it sure looks like it.

Less than two months af­ter launch­ing with Deer­field cash and ex-AveX­is lead­er­ship, Jaguar an­nounced Tues­day they raised a $139 mil­lion Se­ries B led by Eli Lil­ly and Deer­field. That rapid ac­cel­er­a­tion is rem­i­nis­cent of the last biotech launched by the old AveX­is team, when Sean Nolan and RA Ses­sions steered Taysha through back-to-back Se­ries A and B rounds be­fore land­ing a $157 mil­lion IPO last Sep­tem­ber, 5 months af­ter launch.

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