Health

NEW YORK, May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Vericred, a healthcare data services company, today announced the closing of a $5.5 million Series A funding round led by Nashville-based FCA Venture Partners, with participation from existing and new investors. The Series A funding brings Vericred’s total funding to just under $10...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. and FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”), a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, and Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, today announced...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Fresh out of Y Combinator, leading meditation platform Simple Habit is announcing a $2.5 million funding round led by top-tier investors in Silicon Valley. Investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Fabrice Grinda’s FJ Labs, Foundation Capital and founders of Dropbox and Gusto....

PARIS, May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Vivet Therapeutics (‘Vivet’), an emerging biotechnology company developing novel gene therapies for rare, inherited metabolic diseases, announced it has raised €37.5 million in a Series A financing round. The round involved a syndicate of leading international life sciences investors led by Novartis Venture...

WALTHAM, Mass., May 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Spindrift, the first sparkling water made with real fruit, announces the closing of $10 million of new growth capital led by VMG Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in investing in and building branded consumer product companies. Additional investors in the round...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — ReThink Medical, a leading data-driven heart failure medical device and digital health company, announced today a Series A investment of $3 million led by medical device equity firm Emergent Medical Partners (EMP).  EMP will lead the round with additional funds coming from investors...

HOUSTON, April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Houston Health Ventures (HHV) has announced its early March investment in Allotrope Medical, Inc., a Houston-based medical device company bringing to market a novel ureter detection device for minimally invasive surgery.  HHV led the investment along with syndication support from the Houston Angel Network. ...

SEATTLE, April 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — MPIRICA Health, Inc., a leading healthcare quality transparency startup, today announces a $4.6 million funding round led by OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, with participation from a private Seattle-based equity fund. The company plans to use proceeds from this round to...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company focused on RNA binding proteins for neurodegenerative disease, announced today that two additional pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV), have invested in Aquinnah’s work to treat ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis),...