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Venture Capital News: Cerevance Adds $47M Series B-1 Extension

2024-04-25
BOSTON, MA, Cerevance today announced an initial closing of its Series B-1 Extension financing round that will add $47 million to the $51 million previously raised.
Cerevance, a company focused on developing precision novel therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced an initial closing of its Series B-1 Extension financing round that will add $47 million to the $51 million previously raised bringing the total Series B-1 raise to $98 million. The financing is led by Agent Capital, Bioluminescence Ventures, and Double Point Ventures, with participation from new investors MQB Partners and LifeRock Ventures and existing investors Gates Frontier, GV (Google Ventures), and Lightstone Ventures. In conjunction with the financing, Campbell Murray, MD, MPP, MBA, Partner at Agent Capital and Kouki Harasaki, Ph.D., MBA, Founder and Managing Partner at Bioluminescence Ventures, have joined the Cerevance Board of Directors.

Cerevance is focused on the development of precision treatments for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including chronic neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Utilizing a large and growing repository of over 15,000 human brain tissue samples, Cerevance is generating an unprecedented level of expression and epigenetic data thereby enabling the company to identify the most promising targets for the next generation of treatments for CNS disorders.
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