Phar­varis lands an­oth­er $80M as it looks to tack­le Take­da and CSL with an oral ap­proach for HAE

A year af­ter their $66 mil­lion launch, the Swiss up­start Phar­varis has man­aged to con­vince an­oth­er fleet of new and re­turn­ing in­vestors to back their up­start ap­proach for a rare ge­net­ic con­di­tion called hered­i­tary an­gioede­ma, or HAE.

The com­pa­ny said Wednes­day that they’ve raised an $80 mil­lion Se­ries C led by Viking Glob­al In­vestors and Gen­er­al At­lantic. They’ll plow that cash di­rect­ly in­to a pair of Phase II tri­als to test whether their lead mol­e­cule can be­come the first oral drug to suc­cess­ful­ly treat and pre­vent the painful episodes HAE trig­gers.

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