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Venture Capital News: Tessera Therapeutics Inks $300M Series C

2022-04-19
SOMERVILLE, MA, Tessera Therapeutics announced today that it has raised over $300 million in Series C financing.
Tessera Therapeutics, the biotechnology company pioneering a new approach in genetic medicine known as GENE WRITING technology, announced today that it has raised over $300 million in Series C financing. Investors included a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA); Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation; Altitude Life Science Ventures; ARTIS Ventures; Cormorant Asset Management; Tessera's founder, Flagship Pioneering; Hanwha Impact Partners; Longevity Vision Fund; March Capital; SALT Fund; SoftBank Vision Fund 2; funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and others including all of Tessera's existing institutional shareholders.

Tessera Therapeutics is pioneering GENE WRITING technology, which consists of multiple technology platforms designed to offer scientists and clinicians the ability to write therapeutic messages into the human genome, thereby curing diseases at their source. The GENE WRITING platform allows the correction of single nucleotides, the deletion or insertion of short sequences of DNA, and the writing of entire genes into the genome, offering the potential for a new category of genetic medicines with broad applications both in vivo and ex vivo. Tessera Therapeutics was founded by Flagship Pioneering in 2018, a life sciences innovation enterprise that conceives, resources, and develops first-in-category companies to transform human health and sustainability.
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