Last deal

$240M

Amount

Post-IPO Equity

Stage

25.03.2024

Date

3

all rounds

$595M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Nkarta Therapeutics develops potent and safer cell therapies for cancer treatment.

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founded date

01.01.2015

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Post-IPO Equity

IPO status

Private

Description

The company is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, combining its cell expansion and cryopreservation platform with proprietary cell engineering technologies to generate an abundant supply of NK cells, engineer enhanced NK cell recognition of tumor targets, and improve persistence for sustained activity in the body for the treatment of cancer.
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Their latest funding was raised on 25.03.2024. Their latest investor Janus Henderson Investors. Their latest round Post-IPO Equity

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People

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Paul Hastings
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Paul Hastings

Paul Hastings was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Nkarta in February 2018. Mr. Hastings was recently the Chairman and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining OncoMed in 2006, Mr. Hastings was President and Chief Executive Officer of QLT, Inc. Previous to that, Mr. Hastings served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Axys Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Celera Corporation in 2001. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Hastings served as the President of Chiron BioPharmaceuticals, a division of Chiron Corporation. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of LXR Biotechnology. Mr. Hastings also held a series of management positions of increasing responsibility at Genzyme Corporation, including serving as President of Genzyme Therapeutics Europe as well as President, Genzyme Therapeutics. Mr. Hastings also served as Vice President, Marketing and Sales and General Manager, Europe for Synergen, Inc., and previously held a series of marketing and sales management positions with Hoffmann-La Roche.

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Employee Profiles
13
Alicia J. Hager

Alicia J. Hager

Chief Legal Officer

Nadir Mahmood

Nadir Mahmood

Chief Financial and Business Officer

Kate Jamboretz

Senior research associate ii

Ming-Hong Xie

Principal scientist

Paulius Ojeras

Senior director clinical operations

Kanya Rajangam

Kanya Rajangam

CMO

Matthew Plunkett

Matthew Plunkett

SVP & CFO

Paul J. Hastings

Paul J. Hastings

President and CEO

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