Company |
Metro Area |
Sector |
Amount |
Investors |
CVRx Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Cardiovascular |
65.00 |
ABS Ventures, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, InterWest Partners, Johnson & Johnson Development, New Enterprise Associates, Sightline Partners, Thomas Weisel Healthcare Venture Partners |
Acorn Cardiovascular Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Cardiovascular |
22.00 |
Cardinal Health, CSFB Private Equity, Fidelity Biosciences, New Enterprise Associates, Sightline Partners |
Atritech Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Cardiovascular |
22.00 |
Affinity Capital Management, Prism VentureWorks, Sightline Partners, Split Rock Partners, Thoma Cressey Bravo, Tullis-Dickerson & Co. |
superDimension Ltd. |
Minneapolis |
Pulmonology |
21.00 |
Medical Venture Partners, Oxford Bioscience Partners, Pitango Venture Capital |
Leptos Biomedical Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Neurology |
20.00 |
Latterell Venture Partners; Spray Venture Partners, Technology Partners; Thomas, McNerney & Partners |
Apnex Medical Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Neurology |
16.10 |
Domain Associates, New Enterprise Associates, Polaris Venture Partners, individual investors |
Cardiovascular Systems Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Cardiovascular |
12.50 |
Undisclosed investors |
Envoy Medical Corp. |
Minneapolis |
Neurology |
12.50 |
Individual investors |
Tactile Systems Technology Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Radiology-Oncology |
11.80 |
Galen Partners |
Arteriocyte Medical Systems Inc. |
Cleveland |
Cardiovascular |
10.00 |
DW Healthcare Partners, Arteriocyte Inc. |
BridgePoint Medical Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Cardiovascular |
10.00 |
Foundation Medical Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Polaris Venture Partners, individual investors |
NeuroVasx Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Neurology |
8.50 |
Miller Johnson Steichen Kinnard, the Stephens Group |
SpineMatrix Inc. |
Cleveland |
Orthopedics |
8.00 |
Psilos Group |
Cellectar LLC |
Wisconsin |
Radiology-Oncology |
7.00 |
Continuum Investment Partners, angel investors |
Intelect Medical Inc. |
Cleveland |
Neurology |
7.00 |
Boston Scientific Corp., Greatbatch Inc. |
Uromedica Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Urology-Gynecology |
6.75 |
Medtronic Inc. |
Incisive Surgical Inc. |
Minneapolis |
General Surgery |
6.00 |
Undisclosed investors |
Imalux Corp. |
Cleveland |
Imaging-Urology |
5.10 |
Early Stage Partners, Reservoir Venture Partners, Symark International |
Impres Medical Inc. |
Minneapolis |
Urology-Gynecology |
5.00 |
Johnson & Johnson Development, Technology Funding, Wavepoint Ventures, individual investors |
Flexuspine Inc. |
Pittsburgh |
Orthopedics |
4.88 |
Undisclosed investors |
Table I. Top 20 Midwest medical device financings in 2007. Source: BioEnterprise. |
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