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.
Adcendo ApS has added a further €31 million (US$33.6 million) to its series A round, providing the means to take its lead antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) through to clinical proof of concept in the treatment of sarcoma.
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.
Genialis Inc. reeled in $13 million in a series A financing co-led by Taiwania Capital and Debiopharm Innovation Fund. The funds will be used to build out the company’s store of clinically validated biomarker models for individualized cancer diagnosis.
Yongrenxin Medical Instrument Co. Ltd. raised nearly $100 million in a series A funding round to build a health platform to treat heart failures. Sinovac Biotech Ltd. led the round.
Mbiomics GmbH raised €13 million (US$14.2 million) in a first close of a series A round that will enable it to pivot from being a microbiome analytics firm to becoming a therapeutics developer.
Vitestro Holding BV reported raising $12.7 million in series A financing round to develop the world’s first autonomous blood drawing device. This round was led by Sonder Capital Inc., alongside existing investors and new angel investors with experience in the clinical laboratory and med-tech industry. “Thanks to this fundraising, we are going to accelerate the product development, prepare EU marketing authorization, and initiate production,” Toon Overbeeke, CEO and co-founder of Vitestro, explains to BioWorld.
Doctorly GmbH raised $10 million in a series A funding round to revamp the German health care sector, giving medical staff new tools to eliminate disk operating systems (DOS).
Newco Teitur Trophics ApS has raised €28 million (US$30.1 million) in a series A with which it will lay out a new route to targeting sortilin in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The company is targeting the sortilin-related Vps10p domain containing receptor, which plays a role in regulating a number of pathways involved in the control of neuronal viability and function.
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