Lindsey Alexander is an Indiana-based freelance writer and editor covering the medical device industry. She earned a degree in journalism from Indiana University and a master's from Purdue.
Benevolent Technologies for Health (BeTH), a two-year old Boston materials startup, is focusing on medical device design to bring patients with lower limb loss customizable interface for their prosthetics. The company’s material is “jammable,” which basically means it can take on any shape. In the world of prosthetics, that means sockets, liners or inserts to adjust to the […]
Spine tech startup Benvenue Medical has secured a $40 million Series E, plus $24 million in debt financing, to further commercialization efforts in the States, upscale manufacturing and support growth. The Santa Clara, California-based company launched its Kiva VCF in March. Back then, CEO Robert Weigle said the company was “blessed to be fully funded […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Around age 40, patients often develop a fuzziness of vision close up, presbyopia–becoming farsighted and losing elasticity in their natural lenses. Docs prescribe reading glasses or bifocals, and the eyes continue their decline. But Irvine, California-based startup LensGen hopes to mimic the lens’ natural movement with an implant. This intraocular lens would harness fluidics and displacement to manipulate curvature, […]
Flow Forward Medical, armed with promising data, has a device that aims to help make more patients eligible for arteriovenous fistula — connecting an artery to a vein, and eventually hemodialysis. If successful, it would also help the more than 60 percent of patients with maturation failure, meaning they can’t get AVF without further surgery. Hemodialysis is […]
Silk is one of the hottest materials and shows much promise for medicine, particularly in targeted drug delivery. Cocoon Biotech, a Boston-based startup, wants to build on that promise with a silk injectable to be used for joint treatment. The company is raising a seed round up to $750,000, including $500,000 in equity. The funding will […]
Boston-based startup Sano LLC seeks $1 million in seed funding to commercialize its chronic wound diagnostic in 2015. The recent winner of M2D2 aims to bring the diagnostic to market at a price point as low as a home pregnancy test. While Woundchek has a CE Mark, American physicians are left with a pretty basic […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In the near future, medtech may take a cue from rock music. Indie musician Imogen Heap and her team of scientists and designers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise 200,000 pounds by May 3 to fund production of a data glove that can translate the wearer’s motion into sound. While the wireless data glove’s first purpose […]
Minnesota medical device company MetaModix has raised $150,000 in equity between three undisclosed investors, according to a regulatory filing made with the SEC. The startup, which is working to develop an intestinal liner implant as a Type 2 diabetes treatment, still seeks $350,000. The device would be placed while the patient is consciously sedated during […]
Chicago medical device startup Miret Surgical has raised a Series A round of $644,750 in equity for further product development, CEO John Avi Roop said. The 4-year-old Stanford BioDesign spinout is at work on laparoscopic tools that connect standard-sized surgical tool heads to pediatric-sized shafts. Like many startups in this space, the ultimate goal is to make […]
An Indiana University spinout attracted investors from Johnson & Johnson Development Corp. and BioCrossroads with novel drugs to treat, and even potentially cure, patients with hepatitis B. Assembly Pharmaceuticals received an undisclosed amount for this seed round. This funding will finance the preclinical proof of concept and help the company establish its bio labs in San Francisco, […]
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“MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences” An Indiana life sciences company looks at metabolites as snapshots to diagnose and monitor cancer. The idea is that cancerous cells have distinct differences in metabolism than healthy cells. Matrix-Bio, a startup with corporate […]
In spite of the Grand Tetons, Wyoming didn’t spring to mind for forging new frontiers in healthcare until I talked to Dr. James Bush, Wyoming Medicaid medical director with the Wyoming Department of Health. With a “maldistribution” of only about 1,000 docs for about 550,000 patients, the state is a perfect candidate for testing out telehealth […]
Wildflower Health, a San Francisco-based mhealth startup has ambitious aspirations that begin in the payer and providers’ pockets and follow moms across the care continuum: to “own Mom as the healthcare consumer,” CEO Leah Sparks said. When Sparks launched Wildflower with cofounder Kathy Bellevin in June 2012, she was about six months pregnant with her […]
Today, a new treatment launches for osteoporosis patients worried about developing severe spine curvature. Spine tech startup Benvenue Medical, based in Santa Clara, Calif., announced the full commercial launch of its Kiva VCF treatment at the Society for Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting. The medical device tech is implant-based and intended for use in […]
eXXclaim is a new fund focused on investments in women’s health startups with medical device and mobile health solutions. Healthcare investor Dr. Anula Jayasuriya and medical device leader Karen Drexler had been talking about the problems of getting women’s health solutions funded for quite some time. Then it hit them: Schedules relatively open, the investor community […]