Spero strikes $125M roy­al­ty deal for cU­TI drug; French firm launch­es $100M ear­ly biotech fund

French in­vest­ment firm Ad­vent France Biotech­nol­o­gy (AFB) an­nounced to­day the first clos­ing of its sec­ond fund for a to­tal of $102 mil­lion.

In­vestors and par­tic­i­pants in AFB’s fund in­clud­ed the Eu­ro­pean In­vest­ment Fund (EIF) and the Fonds na­tion­al d’amorçage 2 (the French Seed Fund 2), which is man­aged on be­half of the French State by Bpifrance. Oth­er par­tic­i­pants in­clud­ed cor­po­rate ven­ture funds such as Boehringer In­gel­heim’s ven­ture fund.

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