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Tuesday, January 10 2023 - 00:42
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SoniVie Raises $60m in Round C Financing, and Appoints New Board Members
TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

The funds, provided by new investors and current shareholder, will be used to 
support the Company clinical and regulatory path towards pre-market approval of 
its TIVUS(TM) technology for the treatment of hypertension

SoniVie Ltd. ("SoniVie" or the "Company"), a medical device company developing 
a proprietary solution to treat hypertension, announced today the completion of 
a $60 million series C round financing. The financing was led by Andera 
Partners, with participation from Supernova Invest and Omega Funds. Current 
SoniVie shareholder TechWald also participated.

In conjunction with the financing, the Company appointed two renowned medtech 
experts to its Board of Directors, Raymond W. Cohen and Zeev Zehavi, as 
independent directors.

SoniVie has developed an ultrasound-based denervation technology with 
application in multiple therapeutic areas. TIVUS(TM) (Therapeutic 
Intra-Vascular Ultrasound System) employs high-frequency non-focused ultrasound 
energy to ablate nerves in the renal artery to decrease blood pressure. This 
minimally invasive investigational procedure can be used to treat patients 
suffering from hypertension, which impacts millions of people worldwide and 
substantially increases their risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney failure.

The proceeds from SoniVie financing are envisioned to be used to reach clinical 
and regulatory milestones and to support TIVUS(TM) renal artery denervation 
program.

Following this financing, the Board of Directors of the Company is chaired by 
Zvika Slovin and composed of directors appointed by Andera Partners (Raphael 
Wisniewski), Omega Funds (Claudio Nessi), Supernova Invest (Rémi Spagnol) and 
TechWald Holding (Alessandro Piga), Sonivie CEO Tomaso Zambelli and independent 
directors Raymond W. Cohen (CEO of Axonics) and Zeev Zehavi (former executive 
JJDC).

"We are very pleased that this financing round concluded with such a resounding 
success" said Tomaso Zambelli, CEO of SoniVie Ltd. "The new investors and the 
Board of Directors bring significant experience to the Company in the field of 
Renal Denervation for Hypertension".

Raphael Wisniewski of Andera Partners commented, "SoniVie TIVUS(TM) has the 
potential to provide patients and physicians with a safe, efficient and easy to 
use device. We are thrilled to support this talented management together with 
our syndicate partners and our new board members".

About SoniVie

SoniVie is a medical device company developing TIVUS(TM), the only ultra-sound 
denervation platform with active development programs in three therapeutic 
areas: pulmonary artery denervation for pulmonary hypertension, renal artery 
denervation for resistant hypertension, and lung denervation for chronic 
obstructive pulmonary disease with chronic bronchitis. These diseases affect 
millions of patients in the United States and Europe. SoniVie has operations in 
Israel, US and Europe.

www.sonivie.com

About Andera Partners

Created over 20 years ago, Andera Partners is a major player in private company 
investments in France and internationally. Its teams manage over Euros 3.7 
billion in investments in life sciences (Andera Life Sciences), growth and 
buyout capital (Andera MidCap, Andera Expansion, Andera Croissance, Andera 
Co-Invest), sponsorless transactions (Andera Acto) and ecological transition 
(Andera Infra).

Andera Partners' mission is to work alongside companies and their managers to 
support them in achieving strong and sustainable growth. The quality of 
performance offered to our investors relies on a strong partnership between the 
entrepreneurs in our portfolio companies and our teams, based on shared values. 
Performance through collective engagement, the "Power of And", constitutes 
Andera Partners' DNA.

Based in Paris, with offices in Antwerp, Milan and Munich, Andera Partners is 
wholly owned by its teams, which count nearly 100 professionals, of which 60 
investment professionals. It is structured as a partnership and managed by a 
board of 12 partners. Responsible and committed, the management company 
regularly forms partnerships with non-profit sector entities and takes concrete 
action in the fight against global warming.

www.anderapartners.com

About Supernova Invest

Supernova Invest is the leading deep tech Venture Capital firm in France, 
managing Euros 400+ million AUM. The current portfolio includes 70+ impact 
start-up companies that develop products and services leveraging breakthrough 
technologies in 4 transition-centric sectors: Health, Energy & Environment, 
Industry 4.0 and Digital Technology.

For 20 years, Supernova Invest has been providing long-term capital, operating 
experience, and strategic support to back sustainable growth of tomorrow's deep 
tech and industrial champions throughout the Venture Capital life cycle: seed, 
early, late and growth stages. Supernova Invest also gathers the entire deep 
tech value chain to support portfolio companies: industrials, corporate, 
research centers and co-investors.

Supernova Invest is backed by the largest asset manager in Europe Amundi and by 
the most innovative public research organization in Europe CEA.

supernovainvest.com [https://supernovainvest.com/en/] 

About Omega Funds

Founded in 2004, Omega Funds is a leading international venture capital firm 
that creates and invests in life sciences companies that target our world's 
most urgent medical needs.

Omega focuses on identifying and supporting companies through value inflection 
points across the full arc of innovation, from company formation through 
clinical milestones and commercial adoption.

Omega Funds' portfolio companies have brought 48 products to market in multiple 
therapeutic areas, including oncology, rare diseases, precision medicine and 
others.

www.omegafunds.com [https://omegafunds.com/]

About TechWald

TechWald, a Group of Operational Holding Companies affiliated to TechWald 
Holding S.p.A., is engaged in scouting and supporting high growth potential 
early to development-stage companies committed to Healthcare Innovation.

TechWald and its international team of experienced healthcare executives have a 
key strategic focus on the MedTech industry and intend to support the 
development and the access to healthcare market of technologies and solutions 
which can provide relevant sustainable clinical benefit and value for Patients, 
Doctors and Healthcare Systems, rewarding Shareholders with a fair and ethical 
profit.

Over the last year TechWald has been engaged as controlling shareholder of 
SoniVie, providing financial and managerial support to the Company throughout 
the initiation of the IDE approved Pilot trial and the completion of the series 
C financing.

www.techwald.com [https://www.techwald.com/]

PR Contact:

Tomaso Zambelli
CEO, Sonivie
tomaso@sonivie.com

SOURCE: SoniVie
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