CardioKinetix Seals $44M For Medical Devices

CardioKinetix, a medical device company developing transcatheter implants, has raised $44 million in a two-tranche Series E financing. New investors SV Life Sciences and New Leaf Venture Partners led the round, which included return backers including U.S. Venture Partners, J.P. Morgan Partners, H&Q Healthcare Investors and H&Q Life Sciences Investors. The company’s device, dubbed Parachute, is implanted into the left ventricle of the heart in a simple catheter lab procedure and is intended to treat patients with heart failure resulting from a myocardial infarction or heart attack.

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