Stelios Papadopoulos, chairman of Biogen Inc BIIB 1.18% and affectionately referred to as the “Godfather of Biotech,” recently updated his massive database of historical biotech IPO data. Papadopoulos collects his data on his own, and his latest charts provide some helpful insight into the biotech IPO climate.

Number Of IPOs On The Rise

According to Papadopoulos’ data, there have been 734 biotech IPOs since 1979. However, his first chart shows just how much the biotech IPO scene has exploded in the past three years.

The number of biotech IPOs hit an all-time high in 2014, eclipsing the previous annual high in 2000 by a wide margin. As of Q3 2015, it appears that the biotech market is once again on pace to eclipse the 2000 watermark this year.

Unprecedented Funding

While the biotech sector might not set a record number of IPOs this year, it is…

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