Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Compact ultrasound maker Zonare Medical raises $30M (VentureWire)
TherOx raises $30M for hypersaturated-oxygen devices (peHUB)
Accumetrics, antiplatelet-drug diagnostic maker, raises $29M (release)
Population Genetics takes in £3.8M for massively parallel genome studies (GenomeWeb)
“Brain fitness” trainer Dakim raises $11M (release)
BioIQ, home-diagnostics maker, takes in $2.5M (release)
Hospital med-tracker Sabal… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES
Sonoma Ortho names Glen Coleman as CEO, preps launch of bone implant (VentureWire)
TechniScan draws $13M for ultrasound CT scanners (release)
OrbiMed plans $150M Asian life-science fund (VentureWire)
Accelerated Tech pulls in $47M, aims for $125M in second med-tech fund (VentureWire)
Amedisys buys out TLC Health Care for… Continue Reading
Medical imager Point Biomedical recaps with $25M
Point Biomedical, a San Carlos, Calif., developer of new biomedical-imaging products, raised $25 million in a recapitalization, peHub reports. Such recapitalizations often amount to a kind of “reset button” for existing investors and lenders, and usually suggest that a startup has run into some kind… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007
Featured companies: American Aerogel, Clinicient, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Genome Diagnostics, RadPharm, RainDance Technologies, Vivacta
UPDATED: Expanded items on Vitae, RadPharm, Vivacta and Genome Diagnostics. Intelligent Bio-Systems is now covered in a standalone item here.
Vitae Pharma takes in $15M for blood pressure, diabetes drugs — Vitae Pharmaceuticals, a Fort… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Friday, Nov. 16, 2007
Featured companies: ActiViews, ChemShop, Freedom-2
ActiViews raises $5M for medical-imaging systems — Israel’s ActiViews, a developer of technology for enhancing MRI and PET scans, raised $5 million in a first funding round. Investors included Ofer Hi Tech and Evergreen Venture Partners.
ActiView’s system provides real-time analysis of medical… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Friday, Sept. 28, 2007
Featured companies: Imalux, Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Sequel Pharmaceuticals, Sinexus, TranS1, U.S. Spinal Technologies
Sagent Pharmaceuticals draws in $53M for injectable generics — Sagent Pharmaceuticals, proving that there’s still life in the apparently lucrative but boring specialty-pharmaceuticals business, raised $53 million in a first funding round. Vivo Ventures led… Continue Reading