Heartflow Inc. is feeling the love of investors again as it closed a $215 series F financing round led by Bain Capital Life Sciences. The round marks a return to the equity markets after several years away; the company closed its series E in 2017 and a $65 million venture round in 2019. In early 2022, Heartflow scrapped its plans to go public through a special purchase acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Longview Acquisition, citing what both companies called “current unfavorable market conditions.” Longview had offered $690 million in July 2021, in a deal that implied an enterprise value of $2.4 billion at the time.
Mercy Bioanalytics Inc. stepped into the increasingly competitive early cancer detection field with a $41 million series A financing round to support its Halo liquid biopsy platform. Novalis Lifesciences led the oversubscribed round with participation from Sozo Ventures, Hatteras Venture Partners, Iselect Fund, American Cancer Society BrightEdge and Broadway Angels, an all-women venture capital group. Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings, Bruker Corp. and existing investors also contributed to the round.
As artificial intelligence becomes more central to clinical radiology workflows, Deepc GmbH will use the €12 million (US$13 million) it recently raised in its series A round to develop additional features within its Deepcos radiology artificial intelligence (AI) platform to allow for faster and more accurate diagnoses.
Shoulder Innovations Inc. (SI) reported closing of an oversubscribed $42 million series D financing to further advance commercialization and distribution of its integrated Inset system. In addition to functions performed by SI’s humeral short stem, reverse and stemless components the new implant has proven its ability to overcome loosening of the glenoid, one the most challenging procedures to perform during arthroplasty.