Neko Health AB raised $260 million in its series B funding round to expand the reach of its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven full body scanning technology to meet growing demand. The fund raise comes amid an increasing shift in behaviors towards more preventative measures in health care in a bid to remove the risk of developing chronic diseases.
Ascentage Pharma Group Corp. Ltd. has priced the first IPO of the year in the U.S. The offering of 7.32 million shares has the Suzhou, China, and Rockville, Md.-based company looking for gross proceeds of about $126.4 million, assuming a price of $17.25 per share.
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Grey Matter Neurosciences, Median Technologies, Neko Health, Semler Scientific, Xaga Surgical.
Beta Bionics Inc. kicked off the new year with plans for an initial public offering of 7.5 million shares “as soon as practicable.” Expected to be priced at $14 to $16 per share, the IPO would gross $105 million to $120 million for the insulin delivery device maker.
Icelandic genomics company Arctic Therapeutics has closed a €26.5 million (US$27.6 million) series A, enabling it to assess if its lead drug AT-001, designed to treat a rare inherited amyloid disease, also could be used to treat more common forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. The program is currently in a phase IIb/III European trial in cystatin C amyloid angiopathy, an ultra-rare disease found only in Iceland that is caused by the L68Q mutation in the cystatin C gene.
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