The need to develop advanced medical technologies is ever increasing, and one incubator is on a mission to identify the world’s most promising opportunities. In cooperation with partners including Israel Innovation Authority, Israeli incubator Medx Xelerator LP is expanding a portfolio of startups that are attacking some of health care’s biggest challenges.

PERTH, Australia – Inventia Life Science Pty. Ltd. closed a A$35m (US$25 million) series B round that will see the company bring its Rastrum 3D cell culture platform to the U.S. market. The technology can “revolutionize the way drug discovery is done,” Inventia Founder and CEO Julio Ribeiro told BioWorld.

LONDON – Brainomix Ltd. has raised £16 million (US$ 21.2 million) in a series B, enabling the company to extend its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven diagnostic platform beyond the initial deployment in stroke, to the assessment of disease progression in lung fibrosis, and response to therapy in lung cancer.

Bond Digital Health Ltd. landed £1 million (US$1.3 million) from investors to expand development of its Transform data management system for lateral flow diagnostic tests. The technology connects to an app that captures data from lateral flow assays in self-testing settings. The results are then shared to a dashboard that can be monitored by the platform admin. The new investment included equity funding from the Development Bank of Wales and high-net-worth investment service Wealth Club. In addition to the current round, Bond is aiming to raise a further £500,000 by January.

Vicentra BV has closed a $74 million series C financing round to accelerate the European rollout of its wearable insulin patch. The small, lightweight system Kaleido is the company’s flagship product and consists of two pumps controlled by a Bluetooth wireless connected handset. The small size rests on a pumping action that – unlike a conventional syringe mechanism – uses micro-pulse technology to deliver accurate and consistent doses of insulin.

V-Wave Ltd. said on Dec. 17 that it has closed all remaining tranches of a $98 million extended series C financing led by Deerfield Management. The funds will be used to complete a pivotal IDE  trial for its Ventura interatrial shunt system for the treatment of advanced heart failure (HF) and submit a PMA to the FDA for U.S. marketing approval.