Medtech companies brought in $1.5 billion in Q2 2016, 15% less than Q1, with debt offerings accounting for more than half the total; acquisitions more than doubled due to Abbott's $25 billion takeover of St. Jude Medical. Diagnostics financings were down 34% from Q1 and acquisition volume, also lower, was mainly Thermo Fisher Scientific's $4.2 billion buy of FEI.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Venture Funding Deals column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors. This month’s column covers deals announced May through June.

New investor Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GmbH is leading a Series B financing round in ExThera Medical to help fund clinical trials in Germany and the US of the latter’s Seraph Microbind affinity blood filter.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, a 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 September through October 2014.