Months af­ter Am­gen's land­mark KRAS ap­proval, Chris Var­ma bags a crossover round for next-gen can­di­date

For years, mu­tant, can­cer-fu­el­ing KRAS pro­teins were con­sid­ered “un­drug­gable.” That all changed in May, when Am­gen’s KRAS-block­ing drug Lumakras snagged the FDA’s first ap­proval in the field. And now a slate of in­vestors are bet­ting $88.5 mil­lion on a Bay Area start­up’s next-gen­er­a­tion can­di­date.

Fron­tier Med­i­cines has closed a hefty Se­ries B round, co-led by Wood­line Part­ners and RA Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, the com­pa­ny said on Mon­day. Deer­field Man­age­ment, Deep Track Cap­i­tal, Ar­row­Mark Part­ners, Driehaus Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, Sphera Health­care, DCVC’s Bio fund, Droia Ven­tures and MPM Cap­i­tal al­so chimed in. With the lat­est round, it’s pos­si­ble CEO Chris Var­ma has an IPO on the mind.

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