Delaware is about to add to the roster of publicly traded companies headquartered here.

The latest is a Wilmington cancer drug company helped in its early years by two grants from the Delaware Strategic Fund.

Prelude Therapeutics Inc. is planning an initial public offering of as much as $100 million in stock, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Delaware Business Times reported on the filing this week.

Prelude Therapeutics received a $474,000 Delaware Strategic Fund grant in 2017, a year after Dr. Kris Vaddi founded the company. Vaddi was a founding scientist at cancer drug company Incyte Corp.

In 2019, Prelude Therapeutics received a $834,000 Strategic Fund grant in 2019 to expand its operations in Delaware. Tha includes adding 49 employees and investing $5 million in new lab equipment and furnishings.

The company had 51 full-time employees as of June 30, it said in its SEC filing.

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The Delaware Strategic Fund provides assistance to encourage out-of-state companies to relocate to Delaware and to assist Delaware companies to expand here.