Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Arbor Surgical raises $20M for heart devices (release)
Small Bone Innovations acquires ankle-replacement maker Link America (release)
Active Implants adds $3M for hip and knee implants (VentureWire)
Clarian Health Partners launches VC unit with $25M (release)
Iroko Pharma acquires non-U.S. rights to Merck heart drug (release)
Remmele Engineering acquires… Continue Reading
Active Implants, pliable hip-device maker, raises $6.7M tranche
Active Implants, a Memphis, Tenn., maker of hip, knee and spine implants, has raised $6.7 million of an expected $21 million second round of funding, VentureWire reports (subscription required). The company’s investors are mostly small local firms and Discure, an Israeli company from which Active… Continue Reading