2024’s Medtech Venture Investment Climate Warmer Than 2023. Will It Last?

Venture investment in medtech seems to be improving, particularly in diagnostics and tools, and down-value rounds have decreased. However, interest rates are still much higher than three years ago, and many tech investors continue to avoid the health care sector as a whole.

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It could be a long while before we see a medtech venture capital financing year like 2021. Buoyed by mega rounds like CMR Surgical’s $600m Series D and Caris Life Science’s $830m growth equity raise, the medtech sector raked in almost $10bn over those twelve months, according to an analysis by Evaluate.

Since then, increased interest rates, poorly performing COVID-19 era investments and reopening of biotech M&A and IPO windows have drawn...

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