Tübingen-based biotech company CureVac has raised a total amount of approximately $640 million (€560 million) in a private financing round in 2020. Participants include the German government through the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the British group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Qatar sovereign wealth fund (QIA). A financing round of this size is a major exception in the history of German biotech companies. When the decision to go public is pending, these companies almost exclusively decide to list in the USA. Why are biotech investors so scarce in Germany and the regulatory environment so unattractive for biotech companies?
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