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... |
| 04.11.2021 | Alphabet kickstarts new AI drug discovery outfit with lessons learned from DeepMind protein breakthroughs | Moderna’s stock $MRNA plunged more than 14% in premarket trading on Thursday after the biotech cut its end-of-year vaccine sales forecast. According to its Q3 results, Moderna now plans on delivering between 700 million and 800 million dose... |
| 04.11.2021 | Bluebird bio completes split into two companies; BeiGene builds out Brukinsa data at ASH | Bluebird bio has been officially split in half. Both sides of the once-singular cell and gene therapy company announced Thursday they have completed their split into two biotechs: A gene therapy-focused outfit that will r... |
| 04.11.2021 | Lonza enters the exosome therapy space with acquisition of still-new Codiak site | In anticipation of tackling the manufacturing problems that come with exosome therapeutics head on, Codiak BioSciences built a 12,000-square-foot manufacturing site in Lexington, MA. Tuesday, it announced that it w... |
| 04.11.2021 | PlateletBio announces $75.5M Series B to extend autoimmune cell therapy | More than two years after PlateletBio landed its first round of fundraising and a contract with the US government, the company announced its Series B round Thursday. The preclinical stage biotech out of Watertown, MA annou... |
| 04.11.2021 | More than a year after trimming R&D unit, Ironwood adds a rare disease drug to the pipeline in hopeful step forward | Ironwood Pharmaceuticals has walked a less-than-easy path the past few years with a proxy-driven shakeup and multiple clinical failures rocking the company. Now under new leadership, Ironwood is snagging rights to a rare... |
| 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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