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Sidewinder Therapeutics raised $100M Series A in 2025 for its conditional activation platform that creates tumor-selective cancer drugs that only become active in the tumor microenvironment, reducing systemic toxicity.
Sidewinder Therapeutics is developing conditionally activated cancer therapeutics — drugs engineered to remain inert in circulation and become pharmacologically active only when they reach the tumor microenvironment. The approach exploits the unique biochemical conditions of solid tumors (acidic pH, hypoxia, tumor-specific proteases) to trigger drug activation, allowing far higher doses to be delivered to tumors with dramatically reduced side effects in healthy tissues.
Microbiotica raised $105M Series C in 2025 for its gut microbiome platform linking bacterial strains to disease, enabling live biotherapeutic products for cancer immunotherapy and IBD.
Microbiotica applies genomics and machine learning to map the gut microbiome's causal role in disease, then develops live biotherapeutic products (LBPs) targeting the specific bacterial strains responsible. The company's Reference Microbiome database — built from thousands of patient samples — is the world's most comprehensive catalog of gut bacteria linked to disease outcomes, providing a systematic foundation for microbiome drug discovery.
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