Private Company Edition: Playground’s third fund has $410m for tech, including biotech, Pivotal Life Sciences closed its second fund with $389m and Chugai will invest $200m through its new fund. Also, Tome launched with $213m, Sudo raised a $116m series B and Odyssey closed a $101m in series C.

Plus deals involving Ono/PeptiDream, Onconic/Livzon, Teijin/Novartis, Eisai/Biogen, Abbisko/Allist, Daewoong/M8, GC Biopharma/Catalyst and KYM Biosciences/AstraZeneca.

The firms’ one-time hemophilia B gene therapy has been approved in the EU just months after a US nod, but concerns remain about its prospects on a market that has seen several setbacks for other gene therapies.

Pfizer’s fidanacogene elaparvovec has hit the mark in a Phase III hemophilia B trial just a month after rival UniQure’s Hemgenix won US approval, with Pfizer’s plans for regulatory action raising the stakes for Hemgenix.