Companies Why a 28-year-old turned down a top US corporate job to run his father’s Limerick businessPatrick Byrnes has transformed Croom Medical from a company with 30 staff into a state-of-the-art medical devices maker employing almost 170 people
Irish medtech invests €5m in Australian company fighting brain tumoursCo Westmeath-based Renew Health has led a fundraise for Adelaide-based Ferronova
Health How a skin blemish led to a doctor and businessman founding medtech company DermViewBusinessman Eoin O’Reilly’s firm allows for fast diagnoses of skin cancer and other ailments and the medtech came about after O’Reilly discovered he had a skin condition himself
Funding Unicare founder’s Upstream Healthcare raises $140 millionFirm partners with primary care providers in multiple states in the US and it will use this latest round of funding to help scale the business
MedTech Belfast-based Re-Vana Therapeutics raises $11.9mQueen’s spin-out is developing therapeutics for the treatment of vision-threatening ocular diseases
MedTech Akkure raises €1.7m ahead of opening first office in USMedtech firm which developed artificial intelligence software to match patients with clinical trials raises amount between grants and crowdfunding
MedTech Atlantic Therapeutics secures close to €30m for wearable stress incontinence deviceGalway-headquartered company has raised close to €100m to date for its non-invasive pelvic floor strengthening and nerve stimulation product
Health Chip shortage delays profits at HealthBeacon However, sales at the Dublin health-tech firm rose by 57 per cent
MedTech HasHealth strikes six-figure deal with British pharmacy chainDigital Health company to provide a new online booking service for Rowlands, the fourth largest pharmacy chain in Britain
MedTech Neuromod spearheads its European expansion with anti-tinnitus device The Dublin-based firm says thousands of patients across Europe are now using the electronic stimulant Lenire for their tinnitus
Making it Work InVera Medical targets €17m ‘game-changer’ funding for device to treat varicose veinsThe Galway medtech has developed a faster and less invasive treatment of chronic venous disease which affects 12 million people in Europe and the US
Medtech T-Pro looking to expand with €60m spend on acquisitionsIrish medtech company runs a transcription-based software business focused on the medical industry
Medtech Aalto Bio to receive war chest for M&A deals as firm is acquiredThe medtech company provides raw materials, including proteins, antigens and antibodies, to the global diagnostics sector
Making it Work Amnexis targets first acquisition as it aims to help solve the global healthcare staff shortageThe Irish-headquartered firm, which develops voice assistant technology to reduce medical administration time, is in the process of closing a €1.5 million bridge funding round
Companies ‘Merck is in Ireland for the long run . . . Access to talent was a key part of our decision’ The chief executive of Merck’s life science division says the company is investing €440 million in its Cork operation because it can access high-skilled workers here
investment Medtech firm plans clinical trials following €6.7 million investmentVersono’s Fastwire intravascular device is designed to allow doctors get through the most difficult blockages they find in arteries
Zoan develops 3D-printed human bone grafts from locally grown coralCompany to collaborate with Swedish company Cellink on groundbreaking new project using coral grown in Connemara
Wheeling in the changes: tech that’s just what the doctor orderedEva Short examines technologies that are helping improve healthcare in Ireland
Irish medtech firm Gasgon fundraises €2.25m to solve IV infusion issuesThe company’s new flagship product, Airvault, is a device for removing air bubbles that negates the need for manual intervention by healthcare staff
Boston Scientific to invest €100m in its Galway campus as part of significant expansionThe US medical device company will hire an additional 300 people and increase manufacturing site by 40,000 sq ft