BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: STOK), a biotechnology company that is pioneering a new way to treat the underlying cause of genetic diseases by precisely upregulating protein expression, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 9,074,776 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $18.00 per share, which includes 1,183,666 shares sold upon full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of common stock. All of the shares were offered by Stoke. The shares began trading on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on June 19, 2019 under the symbol “STOK.” Stoke received gross proceeds, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses, of approximately $163.3 million.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Cowen and Company, LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Canaccord Genuity LLC acted as lead manager.

About Stoke Therapeutics

Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: STOK), is a biotechnology company that is pioneering a new way to treat the underlying causes of severe genetic diseases by precisely upregulating protein expression to restore target proteins to near normal levels. Stoke aims to develop the first precision medicine platform to target the underlying cause of a broad spectrum of genetic diseases in which the patient has one healthy copy of a gene and one mutated copy that fails to produce a protein essential to health. These diseases, in which loss of approximately 50 percent of normal protein expression causes disease, are called autosomal dominant haploinsufficiencies. Stoke was launched with investments by Apple Tree Partners. Stoke is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.