Med-tech financings surpassed $1 billion again in November, with transactions totalling $1.02 billion for the month. Though a decline from the $1.23 billion raised in October, the value is up from September’s $645.75 million.
Pharvaris NV’s phase II top-line data from the Chapter-1 trial testing oral bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist deucrictibant in hereditary angioedema (HAE) wowed Wall Street and sparked speculation regarding where the drug might fit in the increasingly competitive landscape.
Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast Ltd. plans to raise AU$97 million (US$64.5 million) to conduct additional phase III registration trials for its allogeneic stem cell treatment for steroid-refractory acute graft-vs.-host disease and for chronic back pain, as required by the U.S. FDA.
Intuitive Ventures, the investment arm of Intuitive Surgical Inc., closed a $150 million fundraising round for its second fund, which will focus on investments in startups in three areas: precision diagnostics and interventions, digital ecosystems and improving health care access and coordination. Intuitive Surgical’s first venture fund raised $100 million that has been used to support more than 10 early-stage companies.
Venture Capital firm Sofinnova Partners has launched Sofinnova.AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that it hopes will transform its approach to life sciences investment. The platform harnesses billions of data points spanning scientific literature, emerging therapeutic fields, and technological breakthroughs, and connects them with the firm’s own proprietary knowledge accumulated over 50 years.