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Medical
Technologies Companies Raise $244 Million, In Five Largest Health Care
Venture Capital Deals Announced In March
Five companies in the medical technologies
sectors raised $244 million in the largest health care venture capital deals
announced during March 2008.
Top Six Health Care
Venture Capital Deals Take 60% Of VC Dollars In February
During February 2008, six health care venture capital deals of $25
million or more each were announced, totaling $229 million-close to 60% of
the entire month's dollar total.
Venture Funding for Health Care Companies
Kept Flowing in January
The five largest health care venture capital
deals announced during January 2008 include two biotechs, a biopharma, a
pharma and a medical device company.
Outpatient Dialysis Provider Starts Up With Large Venture Round
Pelikan Technologies raised the largest
venture round announced by a health care company during December, with a
$69 million Series F financing provided by Clarus Ventures, HBM
BioVentures, Global Life Science Ventures, Mannheim Holdings and Bio*One
Capital.
Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair Developer Secures Largest Venture Round
Evalve, a developer of devices for the
percutaneous repair of cardiac valves, secured funding to support
commercialization in Europe and trials in the United States of its
MitraClip. The $60 million financing, provided by New Enterprise
Associates, Split Rock Partners, Abbott Laboratories and Emergent Medical
Ventures, was the Series D for Evalve, and the largest round announced
during November 2007.
The Top
Health Care Venture Capital Deals of October 2007
The five largest health care venture capital
deals announced during October 2007 accounted for $202 million in total
proceeds, raised by companies in the health care services,
biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.
Biopharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Companies Lead Health Care Venture
Capital Deals in September
During September 2007, 43 health care companies raised $641.3 million in
venture capital financing, with the five largest deals accounting for about
one-third of the dollar total.
Medical Device Company Announces
Nine-Digit Venture Capital Deal
During August 2007, health care companies
raised nearly $714 million in venture capital, including the fourth health
care venture capital deal so far this year to equal or exceed one hundred
million dollars.
Health Care Services Companies Secure Significant Equity Rounds
For the month of July 2007, the five largest
health care venture capital transactions include two deals announced by
companies that provide health care services. In each of the two services
deals, as well as in one deal announced by a company with a product
essential to health care facilities, a single investor is providing the
financing.
Two
Companies Developing Pain Drugs Are Among Top Five Health Care Venture
Capital Deals In June
The five companies that announced the
largest venture capital deals during June 2007 include two developing
drugs for pain, one working on a device-based treatment for heart failure,
one contract pharmacy serving the long-term care industry and one in a
strategic alliance focused on developing cancer treatments.
Top Five Health Care Venture Capital
Deals In May Include Four Strategic Investors
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Biogen Idec, Schering Plough
and Olympus Medical Systems all appear among the investors in the top five
health care venture capital deals announced during May, which feature two
medical device companies and three biopharmaceutical companies.
Aesthetic Medicine Company Announces
Largest of Top Five Health Care Venture Capital Deals In April
During April 2007, the five largest health
care venture capital deals were led by Sientra, a specialty medical device
company focused on plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine, and also
included Radius, Sangart, Ascenta and GANYMED.
March VC
Deals Include Two In Excess Of $100 Million
The top venture capital deals announced
during March 2007 include a $175 million round for EUSA Pharma and a $110
million round for CardioNet, and both companies recently made acquisitions
too.
Biopharmas Announce Top Three VC Deals In February 2007
Three biopharmaceutical companies top the
list of the five largest venture capital rounds announced in the health
care sectors, followed by a pharma and a biotech, during February 2007.
Top
Five Health Care Venture Capital Deals Total $262.6 million In January
2007
Three biopharmaceutical companies and two
medical device companies announced the five largest health care venture
capital deals of January 2007.
Health Care Services Company Announces Largest of Top Five Health Care
Venture Capital Deals in December 2006
The five largest health care venture
capital deals of December 2006 were announced by three medical device
companies, one pharmaceutical and one health care services company.
Three Pharmas, Two Biotechs
Announce Five Largest Health Care Venture Capital Deals
The five largest health care venture capital deals of November 2006 were
announced by three pharmaceutical companies and two biotechnology
companies, raising a combined total of $281.0 million.
Key People Talk With Us About Top
Deals
The November issue of Healthcare Corporate Finance News highlights our
conversations with key people involved in three of the largest recent
venture capital deals.
Five Deals Account For 38% Of
Health Care Venture Capital Raised In October
In October 2006, the five largest
deals accounted for nearly 38% of total venture capital funding raised by
health care companies during the month.
VC
Blog 9/15/06
Healthcare Corporate Finance News Monday Morning Review
At a glance, last week's largest deals in
health care, including venture capital and private equity investments, IPO
filings, mergers and acquisitions, announced from August 21-28, 2006.
The Top Deals In Health Care Corporate Finance, August 1-14, 2006
Health Care Companies in Cardiovascular, Anti-Inflammatory and Other
Markets Capturing Venture Capital (July 18, 2006)
The Top Deals In Health Care Venture
Capital, July 1-14, 2006
Biopharm and Biotech Garner Most Deals, Most Dollars (June 16, 2006)
Health care venture capital deals from June
1-15, 2006
Aerovance Secures $60 million To Fund
Biopharmaceutical Development (May 16, 2006)
Top 5 Health Care Venture Capital Deals
(April 17, 2006)
More Money Moving Into the Medical Markets
This March–March 2006 (March 17, 2006)
Health care venture capital funding
increased dramatically during the first two weeks of March 2006, posting
more than twice the amount of total funding recorded for the same two
weeks of 2005, while deal volume increased moderately. |
