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Solas BioVentures — 2021 Investments

6 investments dated 2021 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Tvardi Therapeuticstvarditherapeutics.comin𝕏NASDAQ: TVRDJun 2021

Tvardi Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing oral small molecule STAT3 inhibitors to treat inflammatory and proliferative diseases.

BiotechHealthtechHouston, US

David J. Tweardy(Executive Officer, Director)Josef Schoell(Executive Officer)inJoseph W. Stauffer(Executive Officer)Derek Chalmers(Executive Officer, Director)inMichael E. Lewis(Executive Officer)inFrederique Menzaghi(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsShangBay Capital LLC

Francis Medicalfrancismedical.comin𝕏Series B · Sep 2021 · $55M

Francis Medical is a medical device company developing minimally invasive urological cancer treatments using water vapor ablation technology, initially focused on prostate cancer with its Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation System.

BiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesMaple Grove, US

Michael Hoey(Founder)inMichael Kujak(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher Dixon(Chief Medical Officer)in

BoardAndrew Cleeland(Director)Jan Garfinkle(Director)inDavid Adair(Director)in

Board seatMichael Hoey· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsArboretum Ventures

CryOSAcryosa.comSeries B · Sep 2021 · $22M

Cryosa develops an incisionless medical treatment that uses controlled cooling to reduce tissue and open airways.

BiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesArden Hills, US

Laura Stoltenberg(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardDavid Belitz(Director)inDoug French(Director)James Eadie(Director)Donald Gonzales(Founder and Chief Medical Officer)

Co-investorsBrightstone Venture Capital

Intershuntintershunt.cominJan 2021 · $3M

Intershunt develops the Dynama System (also known as the PAS-C System), an investigational interatrial shunting device designed to create a pathway in the heart's upper chambers to reduce elevated left atrial pressure and relieve heart failure symptoms.

HardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesFridley, US

Harlan Lee Sorkin(Executive Officer, Director)Gil M. Vardi(Director)

BoardDenis Harrington(Director)inDavid Adair(Director)inJim Bullock(Director)

Vesaliovesalio.comin𝕏Jul 2021

Vesalio develops stroke treatment technology, specifically devices and systems for endovascular neurosurgical interventions to treat acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Deep TechHealthtechMedical Devices

Arthur J. Ulm(CTO/Founder/Board Member)

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Bio 54, LLC

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.