San Francisco's EndoVention, a developer of catheters for use in blood-clot removal, raised $1.5 million of an expected $2.5 million first round, VentureWire reports (subscription required). Such catheters are flexible tubes that doctors can insert into blocked blood vessels in order to "vacuum out" clots, sometimes with the assistances of clot-dissolving drugs. EndoVention's device has an "expandable mouth" to regulate the intake of clots.
Angel investors provided the funding, EndoVention CEO Peter Yorke told VentureWire.