Private Company Edition: With its lead program in the clinic, Frontier’s $80m series C round will fund trials for additional programs. Also, ORI raises $260m for second fund, Earlybird closed a €173m ($187.1m) fund, Areteia’s series A grew to $425m and Sudo’s series B increased to $147m.

After years of laying the foundations, China Biotech Inc. is being pursued by multinationals looking for innovative candidates to commercialize in both China and globally, executives and deals from the just concluded J.P Morgan Global Healthcare Conference show.

One week into 2024 and there have already been multiple deals between Chinese innovative drug developers and multinational partners, along with the significant acquisition of GracellBio by AstraZeneca. In this Chinese-language podcast, Brian Yang and Dexter Yan invite a guest speaker to discuss the reasons behind the particularly active China biotech deal-making scene.

In this second of a series of Exec Chats with leaders at major diabetes companies presenting at ADA’s Scientific Sessions 2023, CEO John Sheridan provides a tour of Tandem’s next-gen innovations and the competitive landscape.