Investments in Medical Alley medtech companies, which had dipped in recent years, have made a comeback, according to the Minnesota trade association. Device companies raised $90 million in the third quarter, pushing the year-to-date total to nearly $200 million raised by 33 companies. Q3’s largest raises in medtech included Urotronic ($26 million, including $20M in Series B funds), 4C Medical ($17 million), […]
4C Medical raises $17m Series A for mitral repair device
4C Medical Technologies said today that it raised a $17 million Series A round for the AltaValve transcatheter mitral valve replacement device it’s developing. Brooklyn Park, Minn.-based 4C Medical, which drummed up a $9 million seed round in July 2017, said its latest private placement was led by an undisclosed “multi-national strategic investor” and included existing […]
8 companies commercializing transcatheter mitral valve replacements
Transcatheter mitral valve replacement is a new frontier in the cardio device field, with big legacy medical device companies including Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic and Abbott spending hundreds of millions of dollars on companies in the space. Much different from transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) has been mostly experimental. TMVR is used […]
20 medical device startups you need to know
There’s a lot of excitement these days around digital health. But there are actually many medical device startups out there in other spaces that continue to push the overall boundaries of medtech. From neuromodulation to drug delivery, surgical robotics and more, here’s a roundup of 20 medical device startups catching the eye of Medical Design […]
TMVR dev 4C Medical raises $9m
Structural heart disease device maker 4C Medical said today it completed a private placement of unsecured convertible promissory notes, raising approximately $9 million to help support development of its transcatheter tech designed to treat mitral regurgitation. The financing was led by Canadian angel network Anges Québec, the Brooklyn Park, Minn.-based company said. “We are excited […]
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