Gene Editing Startup Beam Therapeutics Launches With $87M in Series A Funds

May 17, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Beam Therapeutics announced today that it has launched with $87 million in Series A funding to develop precision genetic medicines that make edits to individual base pairs in the genome.

The funding round was led by F-Prime Capital Partners and ARCH Venture Partners.

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