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RA Capital — 2017 Investments

4 investments dated 2017 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Spero Therapeuticssperotherapeutics.cominNASDAQ: SPROMar 2017

Spero Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing medicines for immune-mediated diseases, led by SP001, a third-generation anti-CD40L antibody targeting IgG4-related disease.

BiotechCambridge, US

Ankit Mahadevia(Executive Officer, Director)inStephen Garbacz(Executive Officer)inEsther Rajavelu(Director, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Business Officer and Treasurer)in

BoardJean-Francois Formela(Director)inCasper Breum(Director)

Board seatReza Halse· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsGV (Google Ventures)HEALTHCARE ROYALTY PARTNERSMRL Ventures FundOUP (Osage University Partners)AlphabetAtlas Venture+1 more

Ivantis Incivantisinc.comJan 2017Acquired

Ivantis was a medical device company founded in 2007 in Irvine, California, that developed the Hydrus Microstent, a minimally invasive device for treating glaucoma during cataract surgery.

Irvine, US

David Van Meter(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardTara Butler(Director)Douglas Roeder(Director)Ali Behbahani(Director)inRandy Alexander(Director)Thong Yuen Poon(Director)

Co-investorsAscension VenturesForesite CapitalMemorialCare Innovation FundNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)

PMV Pharmapmvpharma.comFeb 2017

PMV Pharma develops precision oncology therapies that target and structurally correct mutated p53 proteins to restore their tumor-suppressing function.

BiotechHealthtechCranbury, US

David H. Mack, Ph.D.(Founder)inDavid Mack(Executive Officer, Director)Arnold Levine(Director)

BoardPeter Thompson(Director)inSteve Winick(Director)Arnold Oronsky(Director)

Co-investorsAvoro Capital AdvisorsNextech InvestOUP (Osage University Partners)Viking GlobalWellington ManagementOrbiMed+1 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Antera Therapeutics

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.