IPO still on hold, Light Sciences beams up $30M
Snoqualmie, Wash.-based Light Sciences Oncology, a developer of light-activated cancer drugs, raised $30 million in a second funding round, even though it still has an IPO registration on file with the SEC. The latest funding closes out the company’s second round, which includes a $15 million investment by Fidelity Investments I wrote about here.
The company didn’t name its latest investors in its press release, but according to VentureWire they include Lehman Brothers, the hedge fund Deephaven Capital Management, the Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, and Burrill & Co.
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David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.