Skynor Medical (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has raised ¥100 million (US$15 million) in a financing round to step up its efforts in product development and market expansion. More specifically, the Shanghai-based company intends to use the funds to develop its interventional treatment solutions for neuro and peripheral vascular diseases, as well as expand them to markets at home and abroad.
Bottneuro AG closed the first tranche of a bridge round, bringing its total capital raise in 2022 to $4.3 million. This is being used to develop its noninvasive, domestic therapy for treating early moderate-stage Alzheimer’s patients.
Cryofocus Medtech (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has raised HK$210 million (US$27 million) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its shares opened at HK$18.5 apiece, fell over 6% and closed at HK$17.66 on the first trading day of Dec. 30, 2022. Its shares closed at HK$16.8 per share on Jan. 3, 2023.
Numares Health AG received $21.2 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) in support to its automated and software based IVD platform for obtaining high-quality nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics data from blood or urine biopsy samples.
Perception Vision Medical Technologies Co. Ltd. (Pvmed) raised around $14 million in a series A financing round, to further develop artificial intelligence (AI) cancer treatment solutions for the two major tumor treatment methods, radiotherapy, and surgery.
Abk Biomedical Inc. has completed an oversubscribed $30 million series C funding round to support IDE approval for Eye90 microspheres designed to improve outcomes for patients with liver cancer. The departure point for the technology’s development is U.S. FDA-cleared Y90 technology such as Boston Scientific’s Therasphere and Sir-Spheres developed by Sydney, Australia-based Sirtex Medical Ltd. “They are the only radioembolization microspheres on the market and that is the clinical space in which we will be submitting our IDE application,” Abk chief business officer Gary Donofrio told BioWorld. “Hopefully we’ll get approvals for the pivotal study and eventually to market in that space. It’s going to be great to be able to innovate and improve on what’s already been done there.”
Remedee Labs SA raised $13.25 million to accelerate the commercial deployment of its mini endorphin stimulator for chronic pain. This is the company’s third funding round after initial fundraising of $11.66 million.