Rotation Medical Raises $8 Million
Plymouth-based Rotation Medical Inc. has raised $8 million in a new round of financing, according to a Tuesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The company’s Rotation Medical Rotator Cuff Repair System treats rotator cuff disease with it’s a unique implant that helps the body grow new tendon-like tissue. The product secured approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014. In the new filing, Rotation Medical declined to disclose its revenue.
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The company has a solid track record of attracting investors. In July 2014, the company announced that it had raised $27.2 million in Series B financing to support the commercial launch and post-market clinical studies of its product. Including its latest round, SEC filings indicate that Rotation Medical has raised about $49 million since 2010.
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Martha Shadan, an executive with extensive experience in the medial device industry, joined Rotation Medical as its president and CEO in 2013. Shadan could not be reached for comment.
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In July Golden Valley-based Medical Alley Association announced that 64 Minnesota medical companies had raised $227 million during the first six months of the year, which marked a new high for that period since the association began compiling the data in 2009.
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Brooklyn Park-based CVRx Inc. announced on Tuesday that it had raised a total of $113 million in its latest round of financing: $93 million in venture capital and $20 million in debt. An SEC filing in June indicated at that time that CVRx had already raised $46.5 million towards a goal of $85 million.
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Minneapolis-based medical device company Tactile Systems Technology Inc. went public on July 28, offering 4 million shares at $10 per share. In its first two weeks of trading, the stock has been up. It closed at $14.09 per share on Tuesday. Tactile marked the first Minnesota company to go public since Plymouth-based Entellus Medical Inc.’s IPO in January 2015.