Past a turn­ing point, Finch scores $90M to com­plete the fi­nal stretch for oral mi­cro­bio­me ther­a­py

Back in 2017, Finch Ther­a­peu­tics was born, shroud­ed in the ash­es of an im­plo­sion at Seres Ther­a­peu­tics that cloud­ed the whole mi­cro­bio­me field. But co-founder Mark Smith man­aged to pool to­geth­er some an­gel mon­ey and a $5.5 mil­lion Se­ries A be­fore land­ing $10 mil­lion up­front from a pact with Take­da.

Smith slow­ly at­tract­ed more be­liev­ers — rack­ing up a break­through ther­a­py des­ig­na­tion, grab­bing a new lead pro­gram through a merg­er with Cresto­vo, ex­pand­ing the Take­da part­ner­ship — and brought in $53 mil­lion in Se­ries B cash to fund a cru­cial Phase II study.

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