The dog-days of summer produced just a handful of mergers and acquisitions in the medtech sector and no blockbuster deals. However, several companies made smaller deals for innovative products in a range of sectors including IVDs, cardiovascular devices, and ophthalmology.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Recent Financings Of Private Companies column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors. This month’s column covers deals announced March through April 2014.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Medical Device Deals Update column is a survey of recent medtech M&A, alliance, and financing activity. This month’s column covers deals announced March-April 2014.

This month we cover SpineGuard, which has developed technology for safer, more accurate pedicle screw placement, and Domain Surgical, which uses thermal energy to precisely incise tissue.