Here’s the slide deck Moderna uses to defend its $7.5 billion valuation

Biotech unicorn Moderna Therapeutics baffled its peers last month when it raised $500 million in a seventh round of venture financing. How, the question went, did the company sell investors on a $7.5 billion valuation despite outstanding questions about its science?

STAT obtained Moderna’s investor slide deck, one in which the company predicts billion-dollar futures for drugs only tested in mice and argues its vaccines business can bring in $15 billion in annual revenue.

Those promises didn’t sit well with some investors.

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