Private Company Edition: June’s eight $100m-plus venture capital rounds already outpace the seven each raised in March, April and May, including €255m ($274.2m) for ITM and $200m for Upstream, but while there were five $25m or less VC financings during the past week, mid-sized deals were lacking.

AvroBio retains rights to its other HSC gene therapy candidates. Alimera Acquires Further Commercial Rights To Eyepoint’s Uveitis Drug.

Agreement with Alexion is JCR’s first international deal for its blood-brain barrier drug delivery technology. Sartoris buys PolyPlus from private equity investors.

Private Company Edition: Flare Therapeutics, targeting transcription factors to discover precision medicines, had big pharma backing for its second venture capital financing. Also, Mediar closed a $10m series A round, Switch launched with $52m and EpiBiologics raised a $50m series A round.