The biggest medical device VC deals of 2022

Enable Injections, which makes the enFuse device, raised $215 million in January 2022. [Photo courtesy of Enable Injections]

Last year was definitely a slower year for medical device VC deals than the year before.

Biofourmis was the only medical device developer in the 10 largest healthcare VC deals of 2022, according to a ranking provided to Medical Design & Outsourcing by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

Because we love devices at Medical Design & Outsourcing, we asked SVB for a ranking of 2022’s largest medical device VC deals after Biofourmis, which raised $325 million in its 2022 series D round. (The year before that, CMR Surgical’s $600 million Series D financing round was the largest medical device VC deal of 2021.)

SVB obliged, once again drawing upon its own proprietary information and data from Pitchbook. The dealmakers include device developers with innovative methods for …

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Surgical robotic developer leads device makers in top healthcare VC deals

CMR Surgical’s Versius system console [Photo courtesy CMR Surgical]

Surgical robotics developer CMR Surgical was the lone medical device maker in the 10 largest healthcare venture capital deals of 2021 in the U.S. and Europe.

That’s according to a ranking provided to Medical Design & Outsourcing by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which recently published its annual VC analysis drawing on its own proprietary information and data from Pitchbook.

Cambridge, U.K.–based CMR Surgical raised $600 million in a Series D financing round announced in June. CMR’s Versius surgical robotic system is available in Europe, Australia, India and the Middle East, but has not been approved by the FDA.

CMR Surgical today announced its expansion into Poland as a hub for Central and Eastern Europe, and last week said its robotic system has been used in thoracic surgery, specifically oesophagomyotomies, lobectomies a…

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