Trillium Therapeutics Raises an Additional $6.0 Million to Close Series A Round at $13.5 million

    TORONTO, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ - Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (TTI) announced
 today that the Company has raised an additional $6 million, bringing the total
 of its Series A financing to $13.5 million. The Business Development Bank of
 Canada (BDC) led the round with a $3 million investment, and existing
 investors, the VenGrowth Advanced Life Sciences Fund Inc. and the Canadian
 Medical Discoveries Fund (CMDF), jointly contributed an additional $3 million.
     "This new investment, which is a direct result of our team's hard work
 and dedication over the last 12 months, will allow us to advance our existing
 development programs towards human trials, and to add one or two new
 projects", explained Dr. Niclas Stiernholm, TTI's Chief Executive Officer. "We
 are pleased to welcome BDC as a new investor and appreciate the continued
 support of Vengrowth and CMDF".
     Robert Hall, a Director of BDC's Venture Capital Division who is joining
 TTI's Board of Directors added, "We are excited to be a part of Trillium
 Therapeutics, given the quality of the company's science and the impressive
 advancements it has made over the past year. I am looking forward to working
 with such a talented and experienced management team and Board."
     TTI, a privately held Research and Development (R&D) company, specializes
 in the development of innovative therapies that restore balance to the immune
 system in conditions associated with aberrant and harmful immune responses,
 such as autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, graft rejection, cancer and
 viral hepatitis. The Company identifies therapeutic candidates with promising
 preclinical profiles and advances these into clinical testing, with the
 primary objective of demonstrating safety and efficacy in humans. The Company
 has two lead development candidates, a CD200 fusion protein (CD200Fc) and an
 Fgl2-specific monoclonal antibody (Fgl2 Mab), as well as several research
 projects. TTI has a variety of external R&D collaborations, including several
 with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
 
     About the Business Development Bank of Canada
 
     BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active
 at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through
 expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth
 potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets.
 BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to
 date invested in more than 400 different companies. It currently manages
 $550 million in venture capital assets invested in the areas of biotechnology,
 medical and health related technology, telecommunications, information
 technology and electronics.
 
 

SOURCE  Trillium Therapeutics Inc.