Bing Yao, ArriVent Biopharma CEO

With one of biotech's largest pri­vate rounds in a year, Ar­riVent en­ters PhI­II

Bing Yao’s Ar­riVent Bio­phar­ma has amassed a $155 mil­lion over­sub­scribed Se­ries B, crown­ing it as one of biotech’s largest pri­vate rounds in a year-long dif­fi­cult fi­nanc­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

The pro­ceeds will bankroll a glob­al Phase III study of a drug al­ready ap­proved in Chi­na, help Ar­riVent in-li­cense more mol­e­cules and ex­pand the 40-per­son work­force by an­oth­er 10 to 20 em­ploy­ees this year, in­clud­ing a chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer.

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