(Bloomberg) -- Vir Biotechnology Inc., which develop treatments for infectious diseases, raised $143 million after pricing its U.S. initial public offering at the low end of a marketed range.

The San Francisco-based company sold 7.14 million shares Wednesday for $20 each, it said in a statement. The shares had been offered at $20 to $22 each, according the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Listing stumbles by high-profile companies including We Co., the parent company of WeWork, have cast a pale over IPOs, which had thrived this year in the U.S. despite trade tensions with China and stock market volatility. Postmates Inc., which submitted a confidential filing in February, is one of the companies that could delay its listing to 2020, people familiar with the matter have said.

Biotechnology firms haven’t been immune to the market slide.

BioNTech SE, German cancer treatment firm, downsized its offering Wednesday to raise $150 million and then fell Thursday in its trading debut. ADC Therapeutics SA withdrew its IPO application a week ago citing “adverse market conditions.”

Vir, founded in 2016, counts SoftBank Vision Fund, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte among backers. Its most advanced treatment is for hepatitis B is in phase 2 clinical trial and it has a flu treatment in phase 1 trial, according to its prospectus.

The offering is being led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & CO., Cowen Inc. and Barclays Plc. The shares are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq Global Select Market Friday under the symbol VIR.

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