Molecular Templates Announces $9.5 Million Private Placement Offering and Agreement to Amend Second Tranche of July 2023 Purchase Agreement
AUSTIN, Texas, March 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Molecular Templates, Inc. (Nasdaq:MTEM, “Molecular Templates,” or “MTEM”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary targeted biologic therapeutics, known as engineered toxin bodies, to create novel therapies with potent and differentiated mechanisms of action for cancer, announced today it has entered into a definitive amended and restated securities purchase agreement with certain healthcare investors that will provide $9.5 million in gross proceeds to MTEM through the closing of the second tranche of its previously announced July 2023 private placement and purchase agreement on amended terms. The financing is being led by existing investor BVF Partners L.P. and includes existing investors BB Biotech AG and Santé, and other leading institutional investors.