Pfenex
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Last deal

$39.4M

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Post-IPO Equity

Stage

29.05.2018

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2

all rounds

$63.4M

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Pelican Expression Technology is a versatile and scalable platform for recombinant protein production.

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Pelican Expression Technology

founded date

07.12.2009

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For Profit

Last funding type

Post-IPO Equity

IPO status

Private

Description

The platform has been successfully used by multiple global manufacturers for producing enzymes, peptides, antibody derivatives, and engineered non-natural proteins. It reduces development timelines and costs for manufacturing therapeutics and vaccines, making it well-positioned to meet the growing needs of the pharmaceutical industry. PfÄ“nex Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California, is a leading biotechnology company focused on recombinant protein expression for various applications, including therapeutic proteins, vaccines, research, reagents, and biosimilars. They utilize their cutting-edge PfÄ“nex Expression Technology™, which combines an extensive toolbox of expression components with a high throughput parallel strain screening technology for identifying protein production strains expressing high titers of soluble active protein. Pfenex is developing a pipeline of therapeutic equivalents, vaccines, biologics, and biosimilars, with their lead product candidates being a therapeutic equivalent for osteoporosis treatment and novel anthrax vaccine candidates.
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