About Codiak BioSciences
Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics, a new class of medicines with the potential to transform the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need. By leveraging the biology of exosomes as natural intercellular transfer mechanisms, Codiak has developed its proprietary engEx Platform to expand upon the innate properties of exosomes to design, engineer and manufacture novel exosome therapeutic candidates. Codiak has utilized its engEx Platform to generate a deep pipeline of engineered exosomes aimed at treating a broad range of disease areas, spanning oncology, neuro-oncology, neurology, neuromuscular disease and infectious disease.
Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics, a new class of medicines with the potential to transform the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need. By leveraging the biology of exosomes as natural intercellular transfer mechanisms, Codiak has developed its proprietary engEx Platform to expand upon the innate properties of exosomes to design, engineer and manufacture novel exosome therapeutic candidates. Codiak has utilized its engEx Platform to generate a deep pipeline of engineered exosomes aimed at treating a broad range of disease areas, spanning oncology, neuro-oncology, neurology, neuromuscular disease and infectious disease.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $300M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 17.07.2021 | ARCH Ventu... | archventur... |
| - | EcoR1 Capi... | ecor1cap.c... |
Funding Rounds 4
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.10.2020 | IPO | $82M | - |
| 29.11.2017 | Series C | $77M | - |
| 26.01.2016 | Series B | $61M | - |
| 18.11.2015 | Series A | $80M | - |
Mentions in press and media 30
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| 06.04.2025 | Pillar VC's New Fund: A Catalyst for Scientific Innovation | Pillar VC has struck gold with its latest venture, closing a $175 million Fund IV. This move elevates the firm’s total assets under management to over $500 million. It’s a bold step into the future, one that promises to bridge the gap betwe... |
| 04.04.2025 | Pillar VC: $175 Million Fund IV Closed | Pillar VC recently announced its $175 million Fund IV, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to more than $500 million. And Pillar VC is also introducing three new Venture Partners, and four new Founding Pillars, a group of CEOs... |
| 13.09.2022 | Two biotechs go for public offerings; Pfizer partner expands oncology collab | After the FDA approved Revance’s Daxxify as a longer-lasting alternative to AbbVie’s cash cow Botox, Revance is looking to top off its coffers. The aesthetics company is offering 8 million shares of its common stock, pr... |
| 13.09.2022 | Codiak Announces Pricing of $20 Million Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Codiak BioSciences, Inc. CDAK ("Codiak"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics as a new class of medicines, announ... |
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| 04.11.2021 | Hiccup in manufacturing will cause GenSight to repeat the process for retinal gene therapy; Dendreon announces collaboration with Shoreline Biosciences | Four months after a gene therapy Phase III trial for retinal neurodegenerative diseases from French biotech GenSight failed despite improvement in vision in patients, the company has announced that it has completed thr... |
| 04.11.2021 | Touting close ties to biotech incubators, Mission BioCapital grabs $275M to help launch startups | Before moving to shiny new offices on their venture dimes, many biotech startups trace their beginnings back to shared laboratory spaces like LabCentral and BioLabs. As the influx of VC dollars push more seasoned players ... |
| 04.11.2021 | GenScript drops a modest investment into its supply capacity as business booms | Ray Miller New Jersey’s GenScript announced the opening of a 50,000-square-foot facility for automated gene synthesis and plasmid production services near its Piscataway headquarters Tuesday. The expansion will ensur... |
| 04.11.2021 | Alphabet kickstarts new AI drug discovery outfit with lessons learned from DeepMind protein breakthroughs | Moderna has drawn plaudits from around the industry and the globe for its Covid-19 vaccine, and it reported continued financial success Thursday in its third-quarter report. But the biotech also quietly announced the discontinuation of anot... |
| 04.11.2021 | Alphabet kickstarts new AI drug discovery outfit with lessons learned from DeepMind protein breakthroughs | Last summer marked a major breakthrough in drug discovery when DeepMind, a predictive modeling startup from Google parent company Alphabet, offered the most accurate picture yet of the “protein folding” problem. The A... |
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