
Recently formed medical device maker Claret Medical, Inc. raised $3.38 million in a Series A private equity offering.
The Santa Rosa, Calif.-based company raised $3.38 million out of the $3.5 million sought, according to an SEC report.
Claret also landed a CE Mark for its Montage system to protect against brain embolism during vascular surgery. Montage is the first filtration system to protect both carotid arteries simultaneously.
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The catheter is delivered during intravascular procedures such as transcatheter aortic valve intervention and can remove potentially stroke causing embolic material from the body.
"The CE Mark approval for the Montage System is an exciting new step forward to potentially reduce stroke rates in TAVI and other vascular procedures," Eberhard Grube, director of the Structural Heart Program at University Hospital in Bonn, Germany, said in prepared remarks.

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