Oura Health Oy raised more than $900 million in a series E funding round to fuel global expansion of its popular smart ring and development of new health technologies. The new infusion brings the company’s total funds raised to date to $1.5 billion and implies a corporate valuation of about $11 billion, Oura said.
Histosonics Inc. signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Gunze Medical Ltd. to bring its novel histotripsy-based therapeutic model, the Edison System, to Japan. The strategic alliance with Gunze Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Gunze Ltd., paves a figurative runway for Histosonics to introduce its Edison platform in Japan — one of Asia’s largest medical device markets.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: AML, Autogen, Ciliatech, Cortechs.ai, Levee Medical, Microbot Medical, OSR Holdings, Refinedscience, Sampled, UCHealth, Verily, Woori, Zepmed.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Biolytical Labs, Centinel Spine, Medtronic, Relu.ai, Simergent.
Abbott Laboratories made plans to enter the cancer screening market with its reported acquisition of Exact Sciences Corp. The deal will pay Exact Sciences shareholders $105 per share in cash, a nearly 50% premium to Exact’s unaffected share price on Nov. 19. That represents a total equity value of approximately $21 billion and an estimated enterprise value of $23 billion.
Breaking up isn’t so hard to do, after all. Just two years after spinning off its consumer products as Kenvue Inc., Johnson & Johnson aims to part ways with its orthopedics unit, which will take with it the Depuy Synthes name first created when Synthes Inc. married into the J&J Depuy ortho unit in 2012 for a tidy sum of $19.7 billion. Depuy was itself acquired in 1998.
Who knew? In addition to adopting a new name, Kneu Health Ltd. recently raised $5.6 million in a seed funding round for its smart-phone-based platform which helps to monitor neurological disorders to enable timely intervention. The funds secured will be used to expand commercial operations in the U.S., scale deployments for Parkinson's disease and advance the monitoring capabilities of the platform for dementia.