Stealthy Oraya raises $4M for medical devices

(UPDATED: See below.)

Oraya Therapeutics, a stealthy medical-device developer in Menlo Park, Calif., raised $4 million in a first funding round, VentureWire reports (subscription required). Essex Woodlands Health Ventures provided the funds.

From the VentureWire story:

Based in Menlo Park, Calif., Oraya is a stealth-mode medical device company founded in June 2006. According to the filing, the company’s board includes Essex Woodlands Partner Guido J. Neels and Adjunct Partner Michael E. Gertner.

Peter Cohn, a partner at the Menlo Park office of law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, was listed as secretary of Oraya.

UPDATE: This item still seems to draw a steady stream of traffic, so I thought I’d also direct readers to a later, more detailed item on Oraya’s second-round funding and the entrepreneurial background of founder Michael Gertner that we published in January.

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David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.

  • more info on Oraya's possible IP and here is a link to the founder via stanford

    http://biod-01.stanford.edu:8080/bdn/people/ger...

    The hyperlink to my blog shows the patent applications and issued patents to the founder Dr. Michael Gertner over his career.
  • David Hamilton
    Many thanks for your comment and the additional information on Oraya and Michael Gertner.
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