Med-tech companies focusing on cardiovascular diseases or neurological conditions, women’s health or robotic surgery, will find European investors willing to deploy capital into their stories. European venture capital firms are excited about the continuing innovation and opportunities in the sector.
Perceive Pharma Inc., a spin out from Perceive Biotherapeutics Inc., has closed a $15 million series A funding round to help it advance first-in-class therapies to prevent vision loss in glaucoma, and additional undisclosed disease areas.
With Gilead Sciences Inc. stepping away from its exclusive option rights to casdatifan in treating cancer, Arcus Biosciences Inc. has decided to move on by pricing a $150 million common stock offering. Arcus said Gilead’s rights to the HIF-2a inhibitor, which just produced positive early phase data, had expired.
After withdrawing plans for an IPO last year, Orum Therapeutics Inc. made its debut on the Korea Exchange in 2025 with a ₩50 billion (US$34.7 million) raise as South Korea’s first biopharma IPO of the year.
Harrison.ai raised AU$179 million (US$112 million) in a series C round to expand its radiology and pathology solutions across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Dongkook Life Science Co. Ltd. (DKLS) priced a ₩18 billion (US$12.5 million) IPO on the Korea Exchange as South Korea’s first med-tech listing of the year.
Germitec SA raised $30 million in a series B financing round to bring Chronos, its chemical-free, ultraviolet-C (UV-C)-based disinfection system for ultrasound probes, to the U.S. market.