RF Surgical, a Bellevue-based medical device company, said it has raised $8.2 million in a Series A round of venture capital from Menlo Ventures and Stanford University. The company markets an FDA approved system that alerts doctors if surgical material, like sponges, gauze or towels, are left inside a patient before incisions are closed back up. The company has raised $12 million this year, and more than $20 million since its inception.
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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