Venture Funding Deals, February 2015

06 Feb 2015

• By Deanna Kamienski, Beth Allan, Amanda Micklus, Steven Muntner, and Maureen Riordan

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Venture Funding Deals column provides a monthly review of emerging In Vitro Diagnostic, Medical Device, and Pharmaceutical companies that have received venture funding. This month’s column covers deals announced December 2014 through January 2015.

Personalized CNS medicine company Assurex raises $30mm in Series D round

New backers American Financial Group and Cross Creek Advisors joined returning shareholders for a $30mm Series D investment in Assurex Health Inc. (individual and multi-gene analysis to improve response rates to neurological medicines)

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