Corvus Pharmaceuticals closes $75m Series B Financing

The transaction was led by Rock Springs Capital Management and included other leading healthcare investors such as Fidelity Management and Research Company, Blackrock, funds, accounts managed by T. Rowe Price, Jennison Associates (on behalf of certain clients), Roche Venture Fund, Cormorant Asset Management, Sphera Funds Management, venBio Select and Cowen Private Investments.

Founding investors, Orbimed, Novo Ventures and Adams Street Partners also participated in the transaction. Cowen and Company served as an advisor to Corvus.

Corvus Pharmaceuticals CEO Richard Miller said: "We are delighted to attract this pre-eminent group of investors, which provides the capital for Corvus to advance the development of multiple product candidates, including an expansion cohort designed Phase 1B trial that will evaluate our novel oral checkpoint inhibitor alone and in combination with another checkpoint inhibitor in several different types of cancer."

The proceeds will be used to expand the company’s research and development programs of multiple small molecule and antibody agents in immuno-oncology, including the initiation of a multicenter Phase 1B trial, which is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2016.