Channel Medsystems Inc. completed a fundraising round to enable the nationwide commercial launch of its Cerene cryotherapy device for treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding thanks to a $26 million investment by Innovahealth Partners LP. The investment is among the largest New York-based Innovahealth has made in any company so far and makes it Channel’s largest shareholder.
LONDON – Oxford Biodynamics plc won a $910,000 grant to help validate real-world use of its epigenetics test for identifying patients who will respond to treatment with checkpoint inhibitor drugs. The award was made as part of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot.
Berry Oncology Corp. raised $99.15 million in a series B1 financing round to expand in the early cancer screening industry as it is seeing a growing demand in the sector. This brings the total capital raised to what it says is “the highest level in China’s early cancer screening industry.” The round was led by China Merchants Capital Management Co. Ltd., along with existing investors Qiming Venture Partners and Legend Capital.
Centaur Diagnostics Inc. herded up interest in its gamified system for labeling medical data for use in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The Boston-based company raised $12 million in a series A round that will help Centaur build out its crowdsourced system for labeling medical images, videos, text and audio recordings. The round brings the company’s funds raised to date to $15 million. Matrix Partners led the charge along with Accel Partners, Global Founders Capital, Susa Ventures, and Y Combinator.
LONDON – Breath biopsy specialist Owlstone Medical Ltd. closed a $58 million oversubscribed series D, bringing the total raised by the company since its formation in 2016 to over $150 million. The money will support further development of tests for lung cancer, liver disease and respiratory disease, and of a new class of diagnostics, which rather than measuring endogenous markers of disease, involve administering chemical probes and assessing how they are metabolized.
Locate Bio Ltd. has closed a £10 million (US$13.8 million) funding round co-led by investors Mercia Asset Management and BGF to advance its orthobiologics product pipeline. The Nottingham, U.K.-based startup, which spun out from the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy, is hoping to disrupt the orthobiologics market with its drug releasing, bone grafting products.