EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Octant, Inc. (“Octant” or the “Company”), a next-generation, data-driven therapeutics company developing programmable biology and chemistry to build precision medicines for complex diseases, today announced an $80 million Series B financing round led by Catalio Capital Management (“Catalio”), established a Deep Mutational Scanning (“DMS”) biopharma partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, and appointed biotech industry veteran Dean “Rick” Artis as its first Chief Scientific Officer and renowned scientist Feng Zhang to its Scientific Advisory Board.