July big month for financings in medtech

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With medical technology financing driven way over the top by the $151.5 million financing by Devicor Medical Products (acquirer of J&J's Ethicon Endo-Surgery breast-care business), the July 2010 total hit a year high-to-date $518.3 million.

See individual financings below.

Replication Medical, Inc., has raised $1.1 million in funding according to a regulatory filing (implantable hydrogel devices used in spine surgery)
Sensus Healthcare, LLC, has raised $1.5 million of a planned $7 million round of funding according to a regulatory filing (medical technology development)
Figure 8 Surgical, Inc., has raised $1.36 million of a planned $1.5 million round of funding according to a regulatory filing
Seguro Surgical, Inc., has raised $125K of a planned $1.25 milllion funding round (surgical instrumentation)
Tissue Genesis, Inc., has raised $1.33 million of a planned $15.3 million round of funding according to a regulatory filing (tissue engineering and cell therapy)
BIO2 Technologies has raised $1.1 million of a planned $2 million round of funding (tissue engineering scaffolds)
Smart Pill Corp. has raised $7.95 million of a planned $9.5 million round of funding according to a regulatory filing (pill camera GI diagnostic)
Cambus Medical has raised $1.89 million (€1.5 million) in a new round of funding (advanced catheter component solutions)
Cappella Inc. has raised $3.69 million of a planned $9.9 million round of funding according to a regulatory filing (treatment of bifurcation in coronary artery disease)
Uptake Medical, Inc., has raised $17.5 million in a Series B funding round (device for treatment of emphysema)
Neoprobe Corp. has raised $14 million in funding (gamma detection technology in sentinal node biopsy)
DFine, Inc., has raised $36.2 million in financing (minimally invasive treatments of vertebral compression fractures)
EyeTechCare has raised $9.5 million (€7.5 million) in a new round of funding (high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for treatment of glaucoma)
Theranos, Inc., has raised $45 million of a planned $100 million round of funding (medical devices that monitor drug reactions)
TriVascular, Inc., has raised $60 million in a new round of funding (technology for repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms)
Ventus Medical Inc. has raised $40 million in a Series D round of funding (medical device technology for treatment of sleep disordered breathing)
InVasc Therapeutics, Inc., has raised $3.2 million of a planned $12 million round of funding according to a regulatory filing (drugs for kidney disease and atherosclerosis)
Innocoll Holdings, Inc., has raised $5 million in funding according to a regulatory filing (collagen-based drugs and devices)
Vertiflex, Inc., has raised $2 million in funding according to a regulatory filing (non-fusion spine surgery technologies)
Providien, Inc., has raised $10.5 million in seed funding (undisclosed medical device technology, principal investor Endeavor Capital)
BBARRX Medical, Inc., has raised $15 million in a Series D round of funding (endoscopic treatments for GI diseases)
Invuity, Inc., has raised $13.2 million of a planned $16 million round of funding (lighting and visualization in minimally invasive surgical instrumentation)
EndoStim, Inc., has raised $6 million in a Series B financing (device treatment sphincter-related disorders such as GERD and urge uinary incontinence)
Gentis, Inc., has raised $548K of a planned $2.25 million round of funding (orthobiologics products)
AxioMed Spine Corp. has raised $14.5 million in a round of funding (spinal disc implants)
Nfocus Neuromedical, Inc., has raised $3.31 million of a planned $7.15 million funding round (device treatment of brain aneurysms)
Maya Medical, Inc., has raised $700K in an apparent seed financing (company founded by Motasim Sirhan, founder of Avantec Vascular)
inCyte Innovations, LLC, has raised $3 million in funding according to a regulatory filing
SuperDimension Ltd. has raised $9.8 million in a funding round (technology to detect and map lung cancer)
USHIFU, Inc., has raised $1.02 of a planned $10 million funding round according to a regulatory filing (therapeutic use of high intensity focused ultrasound)
Devicor Medical Products Group, LLC, has raised $151.5 million from seven investors to fund development of breast-care business (now named Mammotome) from J&J's Ethicon Endo-Surgery.
IDEV Technologies, Inc., has raised $27.7 million of a planned $44.8 million round of financing according to a regulatory filing (biliary stent technologies)
Sound Surgical Technologies, LLC, has raised $2.1 million of a planned $5 million funding round (ultrasound based liposuction for cosmetic surgery)
Avedro, Inc., has raised $4.58 million in funding according to a regulatory filing (non-invasive procedure for treatment of keratoconus in vision correction)
InfraReDx, Inc., has raised $1.53 million in a round of funding according to a regulatory filing (infrared imaging of blood vessels for catheterization)
Aethlon Medical, Inc., has raised $890K in a round of funding according to a regulatory filing (blood purifier to treat infectious diseases)