New Enterprise Associates

Cartiva closes out $8M Series D to bring its synthetic cartilage product geared at osteoarthritis to U.S. market

Georgia medtech startup Cartiva just closed out an $8.5 million Series D, which will fund the company through PMA approval for its synthetic cartilage implant meant for those with osteoarthritis. It submitted a PMA application to the FDA just last month. The dollars will also fund Cartiva’s post-510(k) clinical trials on its ProxiFuse Hammertoe Correction System […]

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How much of NEA’s new, $3.1 billion fund will finance healthcare companies? A third, perhaps.

Venture firm New Enterprise Associates made some massive waves today on news that it’s closed its fifteenth – and largest – fund, which holds $3.1 billion. And a huge swath of that – 30 to 40 percent, according to Fierce – could likely be allocated to the healthcare space. MedCity News reported initially on NEA’s plans to raise funds – it filed […]

Prodigious healthcare investor NEA is raising a $2.5 billion fund

New Enterprise Associates, a prodigious venture investor in healthcare across biotech, medical devices and healthcare services, is raising a $2.5 billion fund, according to an SEC document. If its previous funds are anything to go by, it could be its largest fund to date. It currently invests in a total of 96 companies in the […]

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Devices & Diagnostics

Minnesota company raises $29.6 million for implantable hypertension technology

CVRx, a Minneapolis-based firm that has developed proprietary implantable technology for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure, has raised $29.6 million for advancing clinical trials of its Barostim Neo, as well as expanding commercial activities abroad. Johnson & Johnson Development Corp. and New Enterprise Associates, Inc. were the co-lead investors. According to […]

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Diabetes, cardiovascular drug developer PhaseBio adds $15M

The Philadelphia-area pharmaceutical company hopes for medical breakthroughs in Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. PhaseBio has embarked on Phase I and Phase II testing of its diabetes treatment, Glymera. Another treatment, Vasomera, focuses on hypertension. The $15 million was part of a total $25 million raised by the former Research Triangle Park/Duke University spinoff.

Devices & Diagnostics

Minnesota device maker BridgePoint Medical raises $1m

BridgePoint Medical Inc. has raised $1 million from the sale of debt and stock warrants, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company, based in Plymouth, Minnesota, is developing balloon catheter system to treat chronic coronary and peripheral total occlusions, a condition in which clots frequently clog blood vessels. Last year, […]

Devices & Diagnostics

Acorn Cardiovascular low on cash, possibly up for sale

Acorn Cardiovascular Inc., which has struggled for years to convince the Food and Drug Administration to approve its heart device, will need to either raise more money or sell the company, MedCity News has learned. In an e-mail, Acorn president Steve Anderson said the company already has slashed costs, including shutting down its website and moving out of its headquarters in New Brighton, Minnesota.