VC funding slowed recently, but public company financings kept up a brisk pace with follow-on public offerings for Allakos and Alpine, private placements for Ventyx and Syros, and Albireo’s royalty deal. In restructuring updates, Biogen raised $592m in a real estate deal and Acerus is assessing options.

Private Company Edition: As venture capital funding continues at a robust pace relative to public company financings, Knopp Biosciences and Population Health Partners launched Areteia with enough cash to fund Phase III asthma trials and Qiming revealed new VC funds totaling $2.5bn and $700m.

Gene-expression focused Syros adds about $190m to its coffers with Tyme merger and PIPE financing. This will get it past pivotal data for tamibarotene and enable Phase III development of a leukemia candidate.

Venus Medtech has agreed a licensing deal with Endoluminal Sciences, an Australian start-up with technology to prevent paravalvular leakage and improve TAVR outcomes.