Device financing dropped more than 40% to $714 million in Q1; Smith & Nephew’s $1.7 billion acquisition of ArthroCare overshadowed acquisitions. Diagnostics companies raised $568 million, a 34% increase over 2013’s final quarter; nonprofits provided assets to diagnostics firms in multiple licensing arrangements.
Medtech fundraising totaled $714 million in 2014’s opening quarter, a significant decrease – just over 40% – from Q4 2013’s $1.2 billion. (See Exhibit 1.)
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