Baebies, Inc. Raises $13 Million in Oversubscribed Round of Financing

Baebies, Inc. today announced the completion of a round of equity financing totaling $13 million. The oversubscribed round of financing included key investors Rex Health Ventures, DUMAC, LLC (managers of the Duke endowment), Cunning Capital, Triad, LLC, the Duke Angel Network and a loan from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Many of Advanced Liquid Logic’s (ALL) former investors including Charleston Angel Partners, and Baebies’ executive team, also invested.

Pompe Positive – What’s Next?

Dr. Priya Kishnani, advocate and expert on Pompe Disease, summarizes the diverse clinical presentations of both the infantile and late-onset of Pompe Disease. Her webinar also accentuates the significant difference that early screening and diagnosis can make in a patient’s outcome.

Pompe Disease – Clinical Outcomes

In this webinar, Dr. Priya Kishnani, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at Duke, emphasizes the necessity to identify Pompe Disease early through NBS (newborn screening). Dr. Kishnani mentions the significant benefits to beginning ERT (enzyme replacement therapy) as soon as possible and how responsiveness to therapy changes with age and severity of condition onset.