Start-Up Quarterly Statistics, Q3 2015
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Start-ups raised $2.57 billion in Q3. Biopharma companies penned 23 alliances; 11 acquisitions were signed, none in the diagnostics industry.
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