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KreditBee Hits $1.5B Valuation on $280M Round, Joins Unicorn Club
KreditBee joins India's unicorn club as investors bet on the country's underserved lending market.
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M&A, fundraising, IPOs, and bankruptcies in regulated industries.
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Merck Cut Terns Bid by $1B After Leukemia Data Missed
Merck cut its Terns offer from $7.7B to $6.7B after Phase 1 leukemia data disappointed. The rival bidder walked entirely.
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Whoop Closes $575M Series G as Health Tech Q1 Doubles Down on AI
Whoop's $575M Series G tops a Q1 health tech funding wave built on AI clinical workflow bets, with no post-money valuation disclosed yet.
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Lilly Bets on Orexins, Tirzepatide Playbook Repeats
Eli Lilly acquires into the orexin drug class, betting the maturing CNS mechanism follows the same multi-indication arc as GLP-1.
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Digital Health Posts $4B Q1 Record as 12 Deals Take 59%
Digital health hit $4B in Q1 2026, up $1B year-over-year, but 12 mega-deals claimed 59% of all capital as total deal count fell to 110.
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Apnimed Locks $150M Credit Line for AD109 Sleep Apnea Launch
Apnimed secured up to $150M from HCRx to launch AD109, with only $50M unconditional and the rest tied to FDA approval and a sales milestone.
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Gilead Pays $3.15B for Tubulis in Third ADC Bet of 2026
Gilead's $3.15B upfront buy of Tubulis adds a 59%-ORR NaPi2b ADC to its pipeline — its third acquisition of 2026, totaling over $12B spent.
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Lilly Pays $7.8B for Centessa to Buy Into the Orexin Race
Lilly is paying $7.8B for Centessa — $38/share plus a $9 CVR — to grab cleminorexton, a Phase IIa orexin agonist for narcolepsy.
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Takeda Files WARN for 634 US Cuts, 247 of Them at Cambridge HQ
Takeda filed a WARN notice to cut 634 US jobs, with 247 hitting its Cambridge headquarters — the largest concentration in the restructuring.
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Syneron Bio Closes $150M Series B for Peptides
Syneron Bio raised a $150M Series B for peptide development. GLP-1s proved the format can print billions. The program list is still a mystery.
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Neurocrine Buys Soleno for $2.9B, Betting 15x Revenue on Rare Hunger Drug
Neurocrine is paying $2.9B at ~15x trailing revenue for Soleno's Vykat XR, the only approved drug for Prader-Willi hunger, in its biggest-ever deal.
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Anthropic Drops $400M on Six-Person Drug Discovery Startup
Anthropic acquires six-person AI biotech Coefficient Bio for $400M in stock — $66M per employee for a company founded in 2025 with no public product.
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Takeda Walks Away From $150M Denali Dementia Bet After 8 Years
Takeda returns frontotemporal dementia drug DNL593 to Denali after 8 years and $150M, citing strategy—not safety—days after Denali's FDA approval win.
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Anthropic Pays $400M for a 10-Person Ghost Company
Anthropic is paying ~$400M for Coefficient Bio, a sub-10-person stealth startup. The price signals how expensive life sciences AI talent has become.
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Stipple Bio Raises $100M to Pinpoint Cancer Drug Targets
Stipple Bio launches with $100M to identify precise targets on cancer proteins, betting the ADC industry's real problem is aim, not ammo.
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Neurocrine Pays $2.9B for Soleno's Prader-Willi Drug
Neurocrine pays $53/share in cash for Soleno Therapeutics, acquiring Vykat XR, a profitable approved treatment for Prader-Willi syndrome.
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Gilead Cuts 51 Foster City Jobs One Year After Same Layoff
Gilead cuts 51 Foster City jobs effective May 29, one year after the same HQ shed 149. The backdrop: ~$10B in acquisitions closed since February.
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Syneron Bio Pulls $150M Series B Four Months After $100M Round
Syneron Bio raises $150M Series B, bringing total funding to $250M in four months, backed by AstraZeneca and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth.
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OpenEvidence Buys Tandem to Automate Prior Authorization
OpenEvidence acquires Tandem to add AI-driven prior authorization to its doctor-facing platform, threatening standalone PA automation vendors.
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Lilly Pays $115M Upfront in Insilico AI Deal Worth Up to $2.75B
Eli Lilly paid $115M upfront for an AI collaboration with Insilico Medicine worth up to $2.75B, with milestone math that heavily favors Lilly.
