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Device/Diagnostics Quarterly Deal-Making Statistics, Q1 2017

A look at financing, M&A and alliance activity January–March 2017

 
• By Amanda Micklus and Maureen Riordan

Medtech companies brought in $2.3 billion in financing in Q1 2017, a slight decrease from Q4 2016; device M&A deals totaled $5.8 billion, a sharp decline from the prior quarter, but there were some billion-dollar deals. Q1 diagnostics financings – totaling $1.2 billion (thanks to a $900 million Series B round by cancer diagnostics company Grail) – showed a significant increase over the preceding quarter, as did the Q1 M&As at $700 million versus the previous $87 million.

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Financing by device companies in the first quarter of 2017 totaled $2.3 billion, slightly lower than Q4 2016's $2.4 billion. Notably, early-stage venture capital fundraising made up 44% of the total financing dollars, but most of this amount came from outlier Verily Life Sciences LLC's $800 million Series A investment from Singaporean VC Temasek. [See Deal] (See Exhibit 1.)

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