Aktiia SA raised $42 million in an oversubscribed series B funding round and rebranded to Hilo. The funds will be used for product innovation, expansion into new markets and to build out its blood pressure monitoring platform to support enterprise use cases.

AMT Medical BV raised $25 million in a series B financing round for its Excimer Laser Assisted Non-Occlusive Anastomosis heart bypass system. The funds will go towards clinical trials and regulatory approval for its sutureless coronary bypass technology designed to replace traditional open-heart bypass surgery.

French venture capital firm Karista led a series B extension financing round for Samantree Medical SA to take the total raised in the round to $20 million. The funds will be used to launch Samantree’s Histolog scanner in the U.S. market.

Neuromod Devices Ltd. raised €10 million (US$10.9 million) in financing to expand the reach of Lenire, which treats tinnitus. The fundraise, which was an expansion of its series B financing round, was led by existing investors Fountain Healthcare Partners and Panakès Partners.

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.

Nobi BV secured €35 million (US$37 million) in an oversubscribed series B financing round to develop its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smartlights which can detect falls in the elderly.

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.

As 2025 makes its debut, one of the topics gaining momentum in health care is the diagnosis and potential treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, a scourge that threatens to overwhelm society and drain treatment budgets around the world. One company looking to find solutions to the oncoming neurodegenerative disease tsunami is privately held Sunbird Bio Inc., which is developing blood-based diagnostic platform for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Inbrain Neuroelectronics SL closed a $50 million series B financing round to advance clinical trials for its graphene-based brain-computer interface therapeutics platform. The company also secured additional funding from Merck KGaA GmbH which will go towards developing the technology for application across both central and peripheral nervous systems.

Kent Imaging Inc. is looking to raise $25 million in a series B financing round to expand the use of its imaging device for measuring wound and tissue oxygenation, and to support the launch of a new product, Pierre Lemire, CEO, told BioWorld.