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Ventures, the corporate venture capital platform of Crescent Enterprises, today announced its investment in Oyster Therapeutics, previously known as Kesmalea Therapeutics, as part of the company’s $60 million Series A financing. Oyster is a pharmaceutical company developing next-generation targeted protein degraders, with an initial focus on tau-driven neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s

Emvena Therapeutics, a Philadelphia-based biotechnology company developing placenta-targeted messenger RNA medicines, has received the inaugural investment from the Penn-BioNTech Innovative Therapeutics Seed Fund. The financing will support development of Emvena’s investigational treatment platform for serious maternal and fetal conditions, beginning with preeclampsia.

(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Penn-BioNTech Innovative Therapeutics Seed Fund (PxB Fund) today announced its investment in Emvena Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing mRNA medicines designed to deliver treatments directly to the placenta to address serious maternal and fetal conditions. Emvena is the first company launched and financed by the PxB Fund, which supports the translation of promising…