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Aug. 25 Quick Takes: RayzeBio, Neumora prepare for IPOs

ARTICLE | Finance

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By BioCentury Staff

August 25, 2023 9:40 PM UTC

Radiotherapeutics company RayzeBio Inc. and neuroscience company Neumora Therapeutics Inc. are aiming to be among the next biotechs to go public on NASDAQ, testing a market that has been slow for new listings since early 2022 but has shown signs of life more recently.

RayzeBio filed a prospectus Thursday to conduct an offering underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Evercore ISI and Truist. RayzeBio’s lead program is a peptide conjugate radiotherapeutic that delivers Actinium-225 to tumors expressing SSTR2; the company started a Phase III trial in May to treat gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). Top shareholders include Viking Global Investors, Versant Ventures, venBio, Venrock and PeptiDream Inc. (Tokyo:4587). Versant and venBio led RayzeBio’s 2020 series A round, and Venrock led its series B later the same year…