Medtech Insight outlines major trends shaping the top 15 cardiovascular device companies included in the latest Medtech 100 rankings. They include a growing need to reach underserved patient populations, ongoing staffing and other challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and reimbursement obstacles.

In Vivo outlines major trends shaping the top 15 cardiovascular device companies included in the latest Medtech 100 rankings. They include a growing need to reach underserved patient populations, ongoing staffing and other challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and reimbursement obstacles.

Dutch venture capital firm, Forbion Capital Partners, has launched a new €92 milion ($116 million) life science fund to invest in 12 to 15 new companies. This is first close for the new fund called Forbion Capital Fund III, en route to a target of €150 to €200 million.

After more than a decade, the field of transcatheter mitral valve therapy is still in its infancy, yet it is surprisingly crowded. The first percutaneous mitral valve company was founded in 1999, the same year that the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) company was founded, but while TAVI is now on the market in Europe and in the US, the leading transcatheter mitral valve therapy has only just completed clinical trials.