AcuSurgical Raises €5.75M in Series A Financing

AcuSurgical

AcuSurgical, a Montpellier, France-based-based company focused on robotic microsurgery, raised €5.75m in Series A financing.

The round was led by Mérieux Equity Partners (via OMX Europe Venture Fund) and Supernova Invest (via Supernova 2 Fund), with Sofimac Innovation (via Pertinence Invest 2 Fund) and IRDI Capital Investissement (via Irdinov 2 and Inn’Vest PME Occitanie Est Funds) participating.

The company intends to use the funds to conduct clinical trials and reach regulatory approval with vitreo-retinal surgery as the first indication.

Founded by Christoph Spuhler, serving as Chief Executive Officer, AcuSurgical uses advanced robotics to make ocular microsurgery safe and accessible by improving the precision of surgical interventions. A proof of concept of the platform has already been completed with a first prototype validated in a preclinical setting.

The robotic platform aims to increase the precision of current procedures, filtering tremor and augmenting visualization with the aid of a telemanipulated robot, while the surgeon remains in complete control.

AcuSurgical has already attracted an experienced and highly skilled multidisciplinary team of executives, alongside the scientific co-founders, Prof. Yassine Haddab and Prof. Philippe Poignet, robotics experts at the joint research Unit LIRMM (Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics in Montpellier) and Prof. Philippe Gain and Prof. Gilles Thuret, retinal surgeons at the Saint-Etienne University Hospital.

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19/02/2021