Medical - 2d Quarter, 1999
| Name |
City |
State |
Amount |
Financing |
Description |
Investors |
| Assurance Medical Inc. |
Hopkinton |
MA |
$8,000,000 |
First |
Investigational technology to assist women and physicians with monthly breast exams. |
Frazier Healthcare Investments LP, TL Ventures |
| Biolink Corp. |
Middleborough |
MA |
$5,000,000 |
Third |
Development of a medical device that provides a new method of vascular access for patients undergoing hemodialysis. |
Canaan Partners, Partech International, Spray Venture Fund LP |
| Endius Inc. |
Plainville |
MA |
$2,100,000 |
Follow-on |
Minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgery instrumentation and implants. |
Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Hickory Venture Capital Corp., Hillman Medical Ventures Inc., Polaris Venture Partners, Venture Capital of New England |
| Gamera Bioscience Corp. |
Medford |
MA |
$1,150,000 |
Bridge |
Diabetes, DNA, infectious diseases and allergy testing based on a portable, disposable CD system. |
Advent International Corp., BancBoston Capital and Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Spray Venture Fund LP |
| Genosis, Inc. |
Boston |
MA |
$3,000,000 |
First |
Home diagnostic device to assess fertility in males and females. |
Schroder Ventures Life Sciences, and others |
| NxSTAGE Medical Inc. |
Tewksbury |
MA |
$5,000,000 |
First |
Therapeutic devices. |
Atlas Venture, Sprout Group, Weiss Peck & Greer Venture Partners |
| PERCARDIA Inc. |
Nashua |
NH |
$8,500,000 |
First |
Novel devices for the treatment of coronary artery disease. |
Atlas Venture, Crescendo Venture Management LLC, Medtronic, Vanguard Venture Partners |
| Vasca Inc. |
Tewksbury |
MA |
$12,000,000 |
Fourth & Beyond |
Proprietary technology for dialysis access applications. |
Atlas Venture, Bedrock Capital, Sprout Group, Weiss Peck & Greer Venture Partners |
| Visualization Technology Inc. |
Wilmington |
MA |
$1,500,000 |
Fourth & Beyond |
Image-guided surgery system. |
Ascent Venture Partners, Boston University Community Technology Fund |
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$46,250,000 |
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Venture capital recipients in New England, by industry, canvassed as part of
the second-quarter 1999 Boston Globe/PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey
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