Enliven Therapeutics Announces $90 Million Private Placement Financing and Provides Pipeline Updates

Financing includes participation from new and existing investors

Net proceeds, along with existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, are expected to extend cash runway into late 2026 and through multiple key clinical milestones for ELVN-001 and ELVN-002

Company to host an event with KOLs on April 11, 2024, to discuss initial proof of concept data from a Phase 1a trial evaluating ELVN-001 in adults with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)

BOULDER, Colo., March 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enliven Therapeutics, Inc. (Enliven or the Company) (Nasdaq: ELVN), a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on the discovery and development of next-generation small molecule kinase inhibitors, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement for a private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing that is expected to result in gross proceeds of approximately $90 million, before deducting offering expenses. The financing includes participation from new and existing investors, including Commodore Capital, Fairmount, Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, a biotech investor, a large mutual fund, Rock Springs Capital, Logos Capital, Woodline Partners LP and Acuta Capital Partners.

“We appreciate the support from our existing and new high-quality investors and their confidence in our clinical programs,” said Sam Kintz, MBA, Enliven’s Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “The additional funding further strengthens our balance sheet and enables us to achieve critical, longer-term clinical milestones as we advance our parallel lead programs, ELVN-001 and ELVN-002. We are particularly excited to share initial proof of concept data for ELVN-001 at our KOL event in a few weeks.”

Recent Research and Development Updates and Upcoming Milestones

ELVN-001, a highly selective, small molecule kinase inhibitor designed to specifically target the BCR-ABL gene fusion

• The Company is currently enrolling patients in its Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating ELVN-001 in adults who failed or are intolerant to available therapies known to be active for the treatment of their CML (NCT05304377), and will host a key opinion leader (KOL) event with CML Investigators Professor Michael Mauro of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Professor Fabian Lang of Goethe University Hospital, on April 11, 2024, to discuss initial proof of concept data from the trial. More details of the event will be announced soon. 
  • In the ongoing Phase 1a dose escalation, 10-120mg once daily (QD), ELVN-001 has been well tolerated with anti-CML activity at and above 20mg QD, including both achievement and maintenance of major molecular responses (MMR) by three months in late line patients, and in patients with prior asciminib experience.
  • A maximum tolerated dose (MTD) has not been reached, and there have been no dose reductions. Of note, there have been no ≥ Grade 3 non-hematologic treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) and of the Grade 1/2 non-hematologic TRAE, none > 11%.
  • At above 20mg QD, ELVN-001 achieved superior target coverage compared to 2^nd Generation TKIs.
• More detailed ELVN-001 data will be presented at the April 11^th KOL event.