Finalists for the diagnostics track at INVEST Pitch Perfect include tests for upper respiratory infections, breast cancer screening, in vitro cellular immunoassays, dysphagia diagnostics, and neuroscience.
Biomarker testing firm Cleveland HeartLab is still growing fast, and it doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. The three-year-old startup has just tacked an additional $14.7 million in fresh capital onto the $18.4 million series B round it raised last summer. This time the investment was led by local Cleveland VC firm Mutual Capital […]
Mutual Capital Partners has raised $16 million for its second fund, which the Cleveland venture capital firm hopes to close at $25 million later this year.
Industrial sterilization and cleaning company Mork Process Inc. has raised $1.4 million in equity of an expected $2 million funding round.
Total capital raised corrected 8:13 p.m., June 23, 2010. OrthoHelix Surgical Designs Inc. has added a $4.6 million cherry on top of its third fundraising round for a total of $14 million raised since early 2008. The company that recently relocated to Medina from Akron, Ohio, develops and makes implants and instruments that surgeons can […]
After more than 20 years in corporate America, Doris Engibous says she was “big-companied out.” So the medical technology veteran jumped at the opportunity to move from California to Minnesota six years ago to become a first-time CEO for Hemosphere Inc., which has developed a vein-access device for chronic kidney disease patients who need hemodialysis. […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
The money was added to a $7.3 million round last year. The company will use the money to expand and sell into 40 states. (It's currently in 25.)
