Chinese replacement heart valve maker Venus Medtech has announced that it received a $37 million investment from Goldman Sachs.
Venus Medtech already has a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), the A-Valve, on the market in the People’s Republic and said a pulmonary valve is in clinical trials.
The A-Valve is the only TAVR device that meets China Food & Drug Administration requirements. The Venus P-valve pulmonary replacement has already been implanted in more than 40 patients, and the current goal is to win CE Mark approval. They will reportedly be enrolling patients to accomplish this in the early half of the year.
Venus also brought in money from Qiming Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital China and Dinova Venture Capital.
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