Investment Summary

EQT Life Sciences and Pfizer Invest In FoRx Therapeutics

On April 22, 2020, growth capital firm EQT Life Sciences and Pfizer invested in life science company FoRx Therapeutics

Investment Highlights
  • This is EQT Life Sciences’ 14th and Pfizer’s 31st transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is EQT Life Sciences’ 2nd and Pfizer’s 3rd transaction in Switzerland.

Investment Summary

Date 2020-04-22
Target FoRx Therapeutics
Sector Life Science
Investor(s) EQT Life Sciences
Pfizer
Deal Type Venture

Target

FoRx Therapeutics

Basel, Switzerland
FoRx Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a new generation of cancer drugs focusing on novel DNA Replication Stress (DRS) pathways. FoRx Therapeutics was founded in 2019 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

EQT Life Sciences


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 3.5B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

EQT Life Sciences (formerly Life Science Partners) is a private investment firm focused on growth and venture capital financing for life sciences and healthcare companies. The Firm targets early to mid?stage companies in sectors such as therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, healthtech, and biotech. EQT Life Sciences was formed in 1986 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 26 of 47
Sector: Life Science M&A 14 of 30
Type: Venture M&A Deals 22 of 39
Country: Switzerland M&A 2 of 3
Year: 2020 M&A 1 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-09-05 iSTAR Medical

Wavre, Belgium

iSTAR Medical is a private medical device company developing novel ophthalmic implants for the treatment of glaucoma. iSTAR Medical was founded in 2010 and is based in Wavre, Belgium.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-04-30 Kiadis Pharma

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kiadis Pharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering a proprietary cell-based, personalized therapy for patients with blood cancers and related disorders, an area of significant unmet medical need.Kiadis Pharma’s unique and powerful platform technology has led to an initial experimental product, ATIR™, which has already been clinically tested on sixty patients. Kiadis Pharma is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Investor

Pfizer

New York, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 1849
Sector Life Science
Employees81,000
Revenue 63.6B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Pfizer office in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Pfizer office in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Pfizer is a global pharmaceutical company that is involved in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of a wide range of healthcare products, including medicines and vaccines. The company's portfolio includes treatments across a broad spectrum of areas such as oncology, cardiology, neurology, and infectious diseases, among others. Pfizer was founded in 1849 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 35 of 46
Sector: Life Science M&A 31 of 41
Type: Venture M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: Switzerland M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2020 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-01-13 Pfizer - CK 1 Business

New York, New York, United States

Pfizer, Inc. - CK 1 Business is a novel CNS-penetrant small molecule inhibitor of casein kinase 1 (CK1), for the potential treatment of patients with behavioral and neurological symptoms across various psychiatric and neurological diseases.

Sell $75M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-07-30 Cerevel

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cerevel is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drug candidates to treat disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). The company has a portfolio of pre-commercial neuroscience assets, which include three clinical-stage compounds and several pre-clinical compounds designed to target a broad range of CNS disorders including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and addiction. Cerevel was formed in 2018 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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