Access Vascular Inc. (AVI) closed a $22 million series C funding round that it plans to use principally to increase production capacity for its Mimix hydrophilic biomaterial vascular access devices. The company’s catheters are designed to evade identification as foreign bodies, reduce bacterial adhesion and eliminate catheter-related thrombus development.
San Clemente, Calif.-based ICU Medical Inc. has acquired Minneapolis-based Pursuit Vascular Inc. for $75 million and an additional, undisclosed earn-out payment that would be due in 2021. In the deal, it gains the Clearguard HD Antimicrobial Barrier Cap, which is the only U.S.-marketed device that's been shown to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in hemodialysis patients.