ARCH Venture Partners brought in $2.975bn for its latest fund to give additional long-term investors a place at the table as the VC firm creates, builds and supports new early-stage biotechnology start-ups. 

Private Company Edition: Biomedtracker found that 53% of financings during the first quarter were venture capital deals versus 32% in Q1 of last year. Also, Qiming closed a $260m fund, Transition Bio raised a $50m series A round, ProfoundBio completed a $70m series A+ and MycoMedica raised $60m.

Private Company Edition: Also, Catalio closed a $381m venture capital fund and OrbiMed’s SEC filings indicate it is in the process of raising $4.75bn across three new funds. Dianthus launched with $100m and Tubulis closed a $63m series B round.

Last year's record low five letters came as FDA launched flurry of studies on DTC, professional ads; 'Bad Ad' complaints totaled more than 100.