Stealthy Nido Surgical took the 1st steps toward raising a hoped-for $1.5 million, pulling in $105,000 from 3 unnamed investors in a debt-and-options round, according to a regulatory filing.
Nido Surgical, named for co-founder and cardiac surgery chief at Boston Children’s Hospital Dr. Pedro del Nido, is developing minimally invasive instruments for image-guided, beating-heart surgery, according to the LinkedIn profile of co-founder, president & CEO Gerald Moore.
The company was formed to commercialize technology created by del Nido and his team at Children’s over the past 10 years, according to Moore’s profile.
Nido Surgical’s SEC filing also lists as a manager Boston Children’s Dr. Nikolay Vasilyev, a cardiac surgery researcher focused on instruments and device design for valve interventions and septal defects closure, new imaging techniques, computer modeling and simulation, according to the hospital’s website.