CoAptus Medical, the Redmond, WA-based company that is developing a catheter device to seal up heart defects, has raised $3 million, according to a regulatory filing. CoAptus is led by CEO Joe Eichinger, a serial medical device entrepreneur, and its board includes former Heart Technology CEO David Auth and Robert Van Tassel, the founder of the Minneapolis Heart Institute.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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