Medtech VC and the billion-dollar era
The first one-shot billion-dollar venture investment round in the medical technology sector has gone to Verily as computing bleeds into medicine.
Corporate VC activity in medtech increases – until this year
In 2018 more than a quarter of medtech funding came from rounds in which corporate VCs took part.
Auris acquisition could prompt more mega VC rounds
The J&J-Auris tie-up will yield a huge return for investors who went in big.
J&J’s Auris buy looks like a Verb swerve
Johnson & Johnson’s $3.4bn move for the robotic surgery specialist Auris Health could be bad news for its Verb Surgical joint venture.
Fewer than 200 medtech VC rounds closed in 2018
Investors swerve traditional medical devices in favour of artificial intelligence-enabled diagnostics.
Medtech funding ventures into the unknown
In a truly extraordinary year, the top 10 venture rounds made up more than half of the total invested.
