Israeli healthtech fund Accelmed is seizing the opportunity to implement a medtech-investment strategy that is delivering big returns. In this Medtech Insight feature, Irit Yaniv, partner at Israeli VC Accelmed, discusses changing trends in the medtech VC industry and the hot new areas of medical technology coming out of Israel.
VC investment in medical technology companies may have declined but it’s not all doom and gloom according to one of Israel’s leading medical device investment firms.
Herzilya-based Accelmed manages assets worth almost $300m, investing in small and mid-cap public and private medtech companies and is looking...
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