Karen Gustavson

Cooley advised Rasa, a leading generative conversational artificial intelligence platform, on its $30 million Series C financing.

Cooley advised Kimia Therapeutics on its $55 million Series A financing. Partner Josh Seidenfeld led the Cooley team advising Kimia Therapeutics, which is a drug discovery platform that uncovers novel biological insights through precision chemistry and machine learning.

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Cooley advised Rani Therapeutics on its $73.3 million initial public offering of 6,666,667 shares of Class A common stock. Rani Therapeutics, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol RANI, is a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on advancing technologies to enable the development of orally administered biologics. Partners Josh Seidenfeld, Mark Weeks, John McKenna and Charlie Kim led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised NVIDIA on its registered debt offering of $5 billion aggregate principal amount of investment grade senior unsecured notes. The offering consisted of $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.309% notes due 2023; $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.584% notes due 2024; $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.550% notes due 2028; and $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.000% notes due 2031. Partners Michael Tollini, Mischi a Marca, Jason Savich, Eric Jensen and John McKenna led the Cooley team advising NVIDIA.

Cooley advised California-based agricultural biotech growth company Pivot Bio on its $100 million Series C funding round, co-led by repeat investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures and a global investment company. Pivot Bio has raised $186 million to date and plans to use the funds to scale-up its microbial nitrogen technology that helps farmers boost crop yield and reduce reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. The funding will also be used to help the company expand internationally. "The strong backing by our Series C investors enables Pivot Bio to redefine the future of fertilizer and provide the world's farmers with a new nitrogen source. Based on remarkable demand, we expect to ramp up from our large current footprint to millions of additional acres in the next growing season." said Karsten Temme, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Pivot Bio, in a news release.