Glooko Inc. secured a $100 million series F financing to support expansion of its diabetes ecosystem platform, which integrates information from more than 200 devices on a centralized, digital data platform that simplifies care for patients and clinicians. At the same time, the company reported the appointment of Mike Alvarez as CEO.
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Cytovale, Levy Health, Milaboratories, Perimeter Medical Imaging, Rivermark Medical.
Purespring Therapeutics Ltd. has raised £80 million (US$104.6 million) in a series B, putting it on course to be the first to take a gene therapy for a kidney disease into the clinic. The money enables the company to move the lead program, PS-002, for the treatment of IgA nephropathy to clinical proof of concept and advance programs in other complement-mediated kidney diseases, and in an undisclosed glomerular kidney disease.
Purespring Therapeutics Ltd. has raised £80 million (US$104.6 million) in a series B, putting it on course to be the first to take a gene therapy for a kidney disease into the clinic. The money enables the company to move the lead program, PS-002, for the treatment of IgA nephropathy to clinical proof of concept and advance programs in other complement-mediated kidney diseases, and in an undisclosed glomerular kidney disease.
Shiratronics Inc. raised $66 million in an oversubscribed series B financing round to support completion of its recently launched clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its neuromodulation device in patients with treatment-resistant chronic migraine.
Immunotherapy company Cartherics Pty Ltd. raised AU$15 million (US$10.3 million) in an oversubscribed series B round that will support the first clinical trial for lead chimeric antigen receptor natural killer therapy CTH-401 for ovarian cancer, and to expand its pipeline to include other diseases.