- Headquarters
- Copenhagen
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2015
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- iobiotech.com
- Total Funding
- $223.1M
- Last Round
- $75.0M Venture RoundAug 2023
- Rounds
- 2
About
IO Biotech is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, immune-modulatory, off-the-shelf therapeutic cancer vaccines based on its proprietary T-win® platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark—with US headquarters in New York—IO Biotech's T-win technology is designed to activate T cells to target both tumor cells and immune-suppressive cells in the tumor microenvironment simultaneously. IO Biotech's lead cancer vaccine candidate, Cylembio (formerly IO102-IO103), has advanced into clinical trials, with Phase 1/2 data published in Nature Communications demonstrating long-term clinical and immunological outcomes in first-line metastatic melanoma in combination with PD-1 blockade. The company's pipeline includes additional candidates targeting Arginase 1 (IO112) and TGF-β expressing cells (IO170). IO Biotech is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: IOBT).
Summary
IO Biotech is a Biotech company based in Copenhagen, United States, founded in 2015. It has raised $223.1M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $75.0M Venture Round round in Aug 2023. Investors include HBM Healthcare Investments, European Investment Bank and Vivo Capital.
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Funding History
Dec 2024
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Series B through Debt Financing — per-round amounts, valuations, and who invested in each round.
Investors
HBM Healthcare Investments
2 rounds

European Investment Bank
1 round

Vivo Capital
2 rounds

Samsara BioCapital
2 rounds
PFM Health Sciences
2 rounds
Sunstone Life Science Ventures
2 rounds
Lundbeckfonden BioCapital
1 round
Armistice Capital
1 round

Marshall Wace
1 round
Novo Holdings A/S
1 round
Pivotal Life Sciences
1 round

Logos Capital
1 round
The Red Hook Fund LP
1 round
Novo Seeds
1 round
Kurma Partners
1 round
Avoro Ventures
1 round
RA Capital Management
1 round
Idinvest
1 round
Soleus Capital
1 round
EIR Ventures
1 round
Serrado Capital
1 round
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