Chinese artificial heart maker Yongrenxin Medical Instrument raises $100m

Chinese artificial heart maker Yongrenxin Medical Instrument raises $100m

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Yongrenxin Medical Instrument, known as the maker of the implantable artificial heart Evaheart, has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by vaccines maker Sinovac Biotech.

The round, joined by the private equity investment arm of China Taiping Insurance Holdings, the longest-running insurance brand in the country, as well as existing shareholder Vivo Capital, will help the firm to build a healthcare platform for heart failure and severe heart diseases, the firm said in a release on Thursday. 

Edited by: Pramod Mathew

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