Impulse Dynamics Raises $80.25M in Series D Financing

HealthcareImpulse Dynamics, a Mount Label, NJ-based developer of Optimizer® Smart System for heart failure, closed an $80.25m Series D financing.

The round was led by Amzak Health Investors, with participation from Wellington Management, Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, Acorn Biosciences and Minth Holdings Limited; strategic investors Zoll Medical Corporation, Abiomed and one additional corporate investor; and the company’s chief executive and chief financial officers.
In connection with the financing, Joyce Erony, managing partner at Amzak Health Investors, will join the Impulse Dynamics board of directors.

The proceeds will be used primarily to facilitate U.S. commercialization of the Optimizer Smart, an FDA-approved implantable device for treating chronic heart failure.

Led by Simos Kedikoglou, CEO, Impulse Dynamics is a medical device company dedicated to improving the treatment of chronic heart failure via the Optimizer Smart, an FDA-approved implantable device.
CCM is the brand name for Cardiac Contractility Modulation, the non-excitatory electrical pulses delivered by the implantable Optimizer device to improve systolic contraction of the heart. The Optimizer Smart System was granted Breakthrough Device designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. CCM therapy sends unique electrical pulses to the heart cells during the absolute refractory period, which occurs just after the heart initiates contractions. In doing so, it strengthens and helps the heart contract more forcibly.
Impulse Dynamics has completed numerous clinical studies, including several randomized controlled trials, the results of which have been published in over 80 articles appearing in leading medical journals. Studies have shown CCM therapy to sustainably improve 6-minute hall walk distance, quality of life and functional status among patients who are candidates for the device. The Optimizer Smart has been implanted in over 4,000 patients and is currently available in the U.S., Europe, China, Brazil, India and more than 40 other countries around the world.
The company also has additional offices in Stuttgart, Germany; Orangeburg, N.Y.; and Willemstad, Curacao.

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03/12/2019

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