{"id":10604,"date":"2024-12-18T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:23:14","slug":"capital-pulse-flow-medical-secures-5m-seed-round-including-first-ever-ucm-ventures-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/capital-pulse-flow-medical-secures-5m-seed-round-including-first-ever-ucm-ventures-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Pulse: Flow Medical Secures $5M Seed Round, Including First-Ever UCM Ventures Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flow Medical, a startup spun out of UChicago Medicine, has secured $5 million in seed funding, with UCM Ventures making its inaugural investment in the company. The startup, founded by three University of Chicago faculty members, is developing a specialized catheter for treating acute pulmonary embolisms. The funding round includes $2 million from a previous friends-and-family round and $3 million in additional investment, with UCM Ventures being a major contributor. The company plans to use the funds to advance their device through FDA application and initial human clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/health-pulse\/uchicago-venture-fund-supports-spinout-flow-medical-seed-round\">full article <\/a>by Jon Asplund on Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flow Medical, a startup spun out of UChicago Medicine, has secured $5 million in seed funding, with UCM Ventures making its inaugural investment in the company. The startup, founded by three University of Chicago faculty members, is developing a specialized catheter for treating acute pulmonary embolisms. The funding round includes $2 million from a previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[672],"tags":[673,674,485],"class_list":["post-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capital-pulse","tag-capital-pulse","tag-flow-medical","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10606,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions\/10606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}