Kin­nate jumps on­to the biotech stage with $74.5M and a fledg­ling can­cer drug pipeline

Can­cer con­tin­ues to be the dis­ease cat­e­go­ry of choice among a large swath of biotech VCs.

San Diego-based Kin­nate has jumped out from the shad­ows with a hefty $74.5 mil­lion B round to fund its work on de­vel­op­ing a new pipeline of ki­nase in­hibitors. Their small mol­e­cule dis­cov­ery ap­proach has cen­tered on a lead ef­fort aimed at DNA dam­age re­pair path­ways — think PARP here — with fol­lowup pro­grams tar­get­ing gene “re­arrange­ment” with known mu­ta­tions and a third ef­fort on an un­spec­i­fied path­way.

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