Restore Medical, a medtech firm specializing in coronary heart failure therapies, introduced the closing of a $23 million Collection B funding spherical.
Pitango HealthTech co-led the spherical with the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, with participation from current buyers, together with Peregrine Ventures.
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Restore Medical treats coronary heart failure with transcatheter therapies designed to revive hemodynamic stability and enhance medical outcomes.
The corporate’s flagship product, ContraBand, is a reversible remedy for the remedy of left ventricular (LV) failure. The catheter-delivered implant is meant to leverage the best ventricle to offer assist to the LV, bettering LV ejection fraction and restoring ventricular geometry.
The corporate will make the most of the funds to finalize a European feasibility examine for ContraBand and provoke a U.S.-based medical examine.
“We’re proud to have the assist of such a powerful and numerous group of companions, together with two international strategic buyers, the European Innovation Council Fund and main VCs comparable to Peregrine Ventures and Pitango HealthTech,” Gilad Marom, CEO of Restore Medical, stated in a press release.
“Their confidence in our imaginative and prescient, staff and know-how is a robust endorsement. With encouraging medical knowledge and FDA Breakthrough System designation, we’re nicely positioned to advance this know-how towards making a significant affect for sufferers worldwide.”
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Restore Medical received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA final yr for its ContraBand gadget.
This designation was particularly for the remedy of coronary heart failure in sufferers with decreased ejection fraction who stay symptomatic regardless of maximally tolerated guideline-directed medical remedy and who haven’t any important pulmonary hypertension or proper coronary heart failure.
In 2023, Restore Medical accomplished enrollment in its medical examine with its ContraBand gadget.
The feasibility, multi-center, potential examine enrolled 15 sufferers who have been already on maximally tolerated guideline-directed medical remedy throughout 5 hospitals in Europe.
In 2022, Restore Medical was awarded a $2.9 million (€2.5 million) grant and topic to a future milestone, an fairness funding of $11.6 million (€10 million).
The funds have been used to assist Restore Medical improve its medical improvement of ContraBand and additional examine the remedy’s security and efficacy.
Different corporations within the transcatheter house embrace Evident Vascular, which in March introduced the profitable closing of its Collection B financing.
The funding was used to speed up the event of the corporate’s superior IVUS know-how designed to boost vascular imaging and affected person outcomes and assist 510(ok) FDA clearance forward of its U.S. market launch.
The California-based firm developed AI-enabled transcatheter intravascular ultrasound know-how that captures photos inside a affected person’s blood vessels to guage vascular illness and improve picture interpretation.
Evident Vascular launched in 2023 after receiving a $35 million Series A financing spherical.
In 2023, Append Medical, developer of a non-invasive implant for transcatheter left atrial appendage exclusion, raised $4.35 million as a part of an prolonged Collection A spherical of funding.
The corporate develops the Appligator, a tool designed to scale back stroke danger in AF sufferers by excluding the LAA to stop blood clot leakage with a minimally invasive transseptal intervention, leaving no steel implant behind.
In 2021, Append Medical accomplished a $7.4 million (€6.2 million) Series A financing round.
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