EndoGastric Solutions (Redmond, WA) a commercial-stage medical device company focused on endoluminal procedures for the treatment of upper gastrointestinal diseases, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and other GI disorders, closed a $30M Series F financing. Participants have included Canaan Partners, Radius Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, Chicago Growth Partners, DeNovo Ventures, Foundation Medical Partners, MPM Capitaland [...]

Pacific Biosciences (Menlo Park, CA) developer of single molecule real-time nucleic acid and protein sequencing system closed a $50M Series F financing. Participants include Gen-Probe, Monsanto, the Wellcome Trust, Sutter Hill Ventures, Deerfield Management, Intel Capital, Morgan Stanley, Redmile Group, T. Rowe Price, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Alloy Ventures, Maverick Capital, [...]

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Eucodis Bioscience (Vienna) a commercial-stage company focused on the development, customization, manufacture and marketing of industrial enzymes, closed a $2.7m Series B financing. Participants include Pontis Capital, Wiener Wachstumsfonds and Arax Capital Partners.

BioVex (Woburn, MA) a clinical-stage biologics company focused on metastatic melanoma, head and neck, pancreatic and colo-rectal cancer, closed a $30M Series F bringing the entire round to $70M. Participants have included Morningside Venture, Ventech, MVM Life Science Partners, Sectoral Asset Management, Ysios Capital Partners, Forbion Capital Partners, Credit Agricole Private Equity, Harris & Harris [...]

Sleep Solutions (Glen Burnies, MD) a commercial-stage medical device and diagnostics company focused on obstructive sleep apnea, closed a $20M Series F financing. Participants include Quaker BioVentures, Johnson & Johnson Dev Corp., TPG Growth, MedVenture Associates, Emergent Ventures and Lava Ventures.

NiTi Surgical Solutions (Israel) a commercial-stage medical device company focused on tissue-closure of colorectal and and gastric disease requiring anastomoses, closed a $18.5M Series F financing. Participants include Forbion Capital Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, Israel Healthcare Ventures, Meakem Becker Venture Capital and Alice Ventures, and SCP Vitalife.

CardioMEMS (Atlanta, GA) a commercial-stage medical device company with an approved endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm pressure management system and clinical-stage wireless sensing device for management of cardiovascular diseases such as aneurysms, heart failure and hypertension, closed a $22.1M Series F financing. Participants may have included Arcapita Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners, Medtronic, Easton Capital Partners, [...]

Helicon Therapeutics (San Diego, CA) a clinical-stage biotech focused on the development of modulating memory formation from short-term memories, and the conversion of short-term memory to long-term memory, closed a $50M Series F financing. Participants in the round were not named

Synageva BioPharma (Waltham, MA) a clinical-stage biopharma and developer of the Synageva Expression Platform, an integrated platform of vectors and protein production, processing and purification systems used to develop their pipeline of monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, and biosimilars, closed a $33M Series X financing. Participants inlcude Baker Brothers Investments, Tullis Health Investors, Four Partners, Yasuda Enterprise [...]

iScience Interventional (Menlo Park, CA) a commercial-stage microcatheter device for the treatment of ocular diseases open-angle glaucoma and clinical-stage development focused on wet-AMD, closed a $20.5M Series F financing. Participants include Affinity Capital Management, Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., L Capital Partners, Clarian Health Ventures, Prism VentureWorks, Three Arch Ventures, DeNovo Ventures and Asset Management [...]