Miramar Labs gets $20M for “aesthetic” devices

Miramar Labs (no Web site), a Menlo Park, Calif., medical-device maker, raised $20.3 million in a second funding round, I’ve learned. There isn’t a huge amount of public information about the company, although it appears that the company is working on electromechanical devices of some sort for “aesthetic indications” — cosmetic surgery, in short.

Investors in the round included Split Rock Partners, Morgenthaler Partners and Domain Partners.

Trellis Bioscience, cell monitoring company, raises $10M

Trellis Bioscience, a South San Francisco company that monitors cells at the individual level to assess what sort of treatments to give people, said it has raised $10 million in a second round of financing.

Novartis Bioventures led the round, which included Pac-Link Bio Venture Investment Corporation and Sagamore Bioventures. Previous investors also participated, including Easton-Hunt Capital Partners and Morgenthaler Partners.

Trellis additionally announced that Markus Goebel, M.D., Ph.D., managing director of Novartis Bioventures, will join… Continue Reading