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Decoy Therapeutics Raises Up to $21 Million in Private Placement to Fund Novel Antiviral Platform

6/27/2026

Houston biotechnology company Decoy Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCOY) announced on June 26, 2026, that it is raising up to $21 million through a private placement financing.

The capital raise centers on advancing the company's Designable Multi-Antivirals platform — a technology Decoy describes as an entirely new category of antiviral medicine.

What Designable Multi-Antivirals Are — and Why the Distinction Matters Decoy's core technology, trademarked as D-MAVs™, is engineered to target viral mechanisms that are conserved across entire virus families rather than attacking features unique to a single virus or strain.

That approach differs from most conventional antivirals, which are developed against one specific pathogen and often lose effectiveness when that pathogen mutates.

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