Another venture funding surge sets up a strong 2018
Cell and gene therapy companies dominate the first quarter, but companies outside these fashionable areas are finding it harder to charm VCs.
2017 rewrites the record books as venture funding accelerates
In terms of venture financing, activity in 2017 outpaced that at the height of the biotech boom in 2015, with 68 biotechs attracted rounds of $50m or more.
Venture financing still positive but big rounds less common
The trend for VCs to pile in to bigger, later rounds might just be weakening.
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