{"id":14539,"date":"2021-10-18T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/loop-medical-raises-usd-6-4-million-to-conquer-us-market\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:40:23","slug":"loop-medical-raises-usd-6-4-million-to-conquer-us-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/loop-medical-raises-usd-6-4-million-to-conquer-us-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Loop Medical raises USD 6.4 million to conquer US market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loop-medical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loop Medical<\/a>\u00a0is developing a novel, minimally invasive device that allows for the collection of quality blood samples large enough to be fully compatible with common high-throughput blood analyzers while providing an easy, pain-free patient experience, improving safety and lowering costs.<\/p>\n<p>The device can be safely administered by a clinician or patient with just the push of a button. Positioned on the upper arm for a few minutes, the device combines patented skin vasodilation and micro-incision technology to enhance capillary blood flow while ensuring low hemolysis (red blood cell destruction) levels. Its controlled extraction ensures low shear stress on red blood cells, and therefore, sample quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The device will be targeted to the home, clinical trial and liquid biopsy testing markets for a combined total addressable market of USD 5.2 billion.<\/p>\n<h4>Significant market opportunities ahead<\/h4>\n<p>The start-up based at the <a href=\"https:\/\/epfl-innovationpark.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPFL Innovation Park<\/a> in Lausanne (canton of Vaud) has raised USD 6.4 million in a Series A financing round led by German medtech group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarstedt.com\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SARSTEDT<\/a> and life sciences investor <a href=\"https:\/\/casdincapital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Casdin Capital<\/a>. Proceeds of the round will go towards US FDA clearance and ramped-up manufacturing of its blood collection device.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThis investment further validates our technology and the significant market opportunity we have ahead of us,\u201d said Arthur Queval, founder and CEO of Loop Medical. \u201cWe thank SARSTEDT Group and Casdin Capital for sharing the belief in our potential and look forward to bringing our technology to U.S. healthcare providers, labs and patients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaud-based healthcare start-up Loop Medical has completed a USD 6.4 million Series A financing round for its innovative blood collection device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[833],"tags":[894,963,926],"class_list":["post-14539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-science","tag-financing","tag-medical-devices","tag-medtech"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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