Dedicated exclusively to breast conservation therapy, Merit believes in improving care and reducing the burden breast cancer places on women and their families.
Location: United States, California, Aliso Viejo
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $34M
Founded date: 2007
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Emergent M... | emvllp.com |
Funding Rounds 4
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.07.2015 | - | $8M | - |
| 24.06.2015 | - | $4M | - |
| 29.04.2011 | Series B | $12M | - |
| 07.04.2009 | - | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.07.2015 | Cianna Medical Raises $8M in Financing | Cianna Medical, Inc., a Aliso Viejo, CA-based medical device company dedicated to women affected by breast cancer, raised $8m in financing. This included $4m in debt financing secured from GE Capital and $4m in equity from Novo Ventures, Fo... |
| 24.06.2015 | Breast cancer: Cianna Medical nets $4M for tumor localization tool | The device is meant to be an improvement on the current standard of care, called wire localization. This involves guiding a wire during mammography that points to the abnormal tissue – so that in surgery, doctors can use it as an arrow to p... |
| 03.04.2013 | Cardiac device startup gets $2.5M investment but stays quiet on technology for heart disease | A call to Fjord Ventures was not returned yesterday. Among the firm’s other portfolio companies are Crescendo Bio and Arges Imaging, acquired by Sirona in 2011. Eighteen million U.S. adults have heart disease and devices like prosthetic hea... |
| 29.04.2011 | Cianna Medical Completes $12M Series B Funding | Cianna Medical, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based breast brachytherapy company, has completed a $12m Series B funding round. The round was led by Novo Ventures, Novo A/S ($8m), with participation from existing investors Fog City Fund, Emergent Medic... |
| 07.04.2009 | Cianna Medical Finds $10M | Aliso Viejo-based Cianna Medical is reporting today that the firm has completed a Series B funding round worth more than $10M. The firm, which is developing treatments for early stage breast cancer, said the funding comes from Emergent Medi... |
| 27.02.2008 | Cianna Medical Gets $9M | Aliso Viejo-based Cianna Medical said yesterday that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding round. The company, which is a spinout of BioLucent, said the funding will go towards further commercialization of the firm's breast brachytherapy ... |
| 26.02.2008 | Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008 | TODAY’S HEADLINES: Adnavance pulls in C$3.7M for molecular diagnostics, names new CEO (release) “Personalized medicine” co. Proprius sells to Cypress Bio for up to $75M (release) Vaccinex raises $25M in wake of GSK deal for antibody drugs (... |
| 26.02.2008 | Cianna Medical receives $9M for breast-cancer radiation treatment devices | See our story on this Aliso Viejo, Calif., developer of brachytherapy devices in today’s daily briefing at VentureBeat Life Sciences. VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain know... |
| - | Cardiac device startup gets $2.5M investment but stays quiet on technology for heart disease | New medical device company Adagio Medical might be laying low, but its executives revealed in a securities filing this week that the California startup has secured a $2.5 million investment. There’s not much publicly available information a... |
| - | Breast cancer: Cianna Medical nets $4M for tumor localization tool | Cianna Medical, the maker of a next-gen brachytherapy technique, has just raised some equity to bring its new device, the SAVI Scout, to market. It’s meant to improve the efficacy of tumor removal in breast cancer surgeries. The company jus... |