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# 🧬 $400M Biopharma Launch. $885M+ VC Funding.
- URL: https://newsletters.qs.com/400m-biopharma-launch-885m-vc-funding/
- Published: 2024-10-02T11:20:43.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-02T11:20:42.000Z
- Description: Daily Impact Deals #193 looks at major deals and M&A in impact industries and upcoming economic releases.
- Author: QS
- Tags: Deals

[**Marhaba**](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic%5Flanguage?ref=newsletters.qs.com#:~:text=Arabic%20%28%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%2C%20al%2D%CA%BFarabiyyah,languages%20like%20Hebrew%20and%20Aramaic.) 🐪

📈 **Today's Global Economic Update:** In September 2024, Japan's consumer confidence index [increased to 36.9 points, up from August's 36.7](https://www.cao.go.jp/?ref=newsletters.qs.com), but still below the expected 37.1\. This marked the highest morale since April, driven by improved sentiment regarding income growth and employment, although overall livelihood sentiment weakened.

**🧬 Deal of the Day:** Kailera Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, launched with [$400M Series A](https://www.finsmes.com/2024/10/kailera-therapeutics-launches-with-400m-in-series-a-financing.html?ref=newsletters.qs.com) funding to expand operations and its development efforts.

**What's New?**  
📚 **Education.** Literacy development  
**🌍 Climate.** Natural gas process technology & clean nuclear technology  
**🩺 Health.** Biopharma & men's healthcare  
🛰️ **Space & Defense.** Space transportation  
📅 **Economics.** US inflation, UK GDP, balance of trade data + more

## 📚 Education

  
**✒️ Keys to Literacy**, a Massachusetts-based provider of literacy professional development, [acquired](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241001210304/en/Keys-to-Literacy-and-Schools-Cubed-Combine-to-Transform-Literacy-Professional-Development-and-Leadership?ref=newsletters.qs.com) Cubed, a Spanish educational app for kids.

## **🌍** Climate

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🏭 **Honeywell,** a North Carolina-based technology and manufacturing company [acquired ](https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/honeywell-air-products-lng-buyout/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)Air Products' liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and equipment business for $1.81B.

**♻️ Newcleo**, a clean nuclear technology company, raised a[ $151M Series A](https://www.power-technology.com/news/newcleo-secures-more-than-e535m-in-investment-ahead-of-hq-move-to-paris/?ref=newsletters.qs.com). The funding, including from Inarcassa, will support a plant for reprocessed nuclear waste and a prototype reactor in France, due by 2030 and 2031.

## **🩺** Health  

**🧬 Kailera Therapeutics**, a Massachusetts-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, launched with [$400M Series A](https://www.finsmes.com/2024/10/kailera-therapeutics-launches-with-400m-in-series-a-financing.html?ref=newsletters.qs.com) funding to expand operations and its development efforts.

**🚹 Manual**, a UK-based men's healthcare startup, raised a [$38.6M Series A](https://insider.fitt.co/manual-lands-29m-for-mens-healthcare/?ref=newsletters.qs.com) from Cherry Ventures and Felix Capital to accelerate expansion in Brazil and other underserved markets while bolstering its technology to optimize patient outcomes.

## 🛰️Space & Defense

  
**🚀 Impulse Space,** a California-based company developing in-space transportation services, raised a [$150M Series B](https://www.finsmes.com/2024/10/impulse-space-raises-150m-in-series-b-funding.html?ref=newsletters.qs.com) to grow its team further and to support the ongoing production of both the Helios and Mira vehicles.

## **📅** Economic Calendar

US Inflation, UK GDP, Balance of Trade Data + More

### Wednesday, October 02nd 2024

[🇦🇺 Australia Balance of Trade Data, ](https://www.abs.gov.au/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)August

### Friday, October 04th 2024

[🇺🇸 US Employment Data, ](https://www.bls.gov/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)September

### Monday, October 07th 2024

[🇦🇺 Australia RBA Meeting Minutes](http://www.rba.gov.au/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)

### Tuesday, October 08th 2024

[🇨🇦 Canada Balance of Trade Data, August](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)  
[🇦🇺 Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence Data, October](http://www.westpac.com.au/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)

### Wednesday, October 09th 2024

[🇩🇪 Germany Balance of Trade Data, August](https://www.destatis.de/DE/Home/%5Finhalt.html?ref=newsletters.qs.com)

### Thursday, October 10th 2024

[🇺🇸 US Core Inflation Data, September](http://www.bls.gov/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)  
[🇺🇸 US Inflation Data, Septembe](http://www.bls.gov/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)r

### Friday, October 11th 2024

[🇬🇧 UK GDP Data, August](http://www.ons.gov.uk/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)  
[🇨🇦 Canada Employment Data, September](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)  
[🇺🇸 US PPI Data, ](https://www.bls.gov/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)September  
[🇺🇸 US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Prel, October](http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/?ref=newsletters.qs.com)

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