June Lee, Esker CEO

Vik Ba­ja­j's start­up in­cu­ba­tor at Fore­site un­cloaks an im­munol­o­gy play­er with a lead TYK2 in­hibitor in tow

Look­ing at a health­care sys­tem made more un­equal by Covid-19, Fore­site Cap­i­tal man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Vik Ba­jaj re­cent­ly kick­start­ed an ex­pan­sive plan to launch five in­no­v­a­tive star­tups to ad­dress un­met need. Just weeks af­ter the first of those biotechs emerged from stealth, a sec­ond has now un­cloaked, and it’s got im­munol­o­gy in its sights.

Es­ker Ther­a­peu­tics launched Wednes­day with a $70 mil­lion Se­ries A to pur­sue pre­ci­sion im­munol­o­gy tar­gets backed by Ba­jaj’s team at Fore­site, the biotech said. Fore­site foot­ed the en­tire round for Es­ker as it con­tin­ues to de­vel­op its pipeline and ad­vance its lead com­pound.

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