{"id":884152,"date":"2026-09-08T06:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884152\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:50:27","slug":"medical-tech-fund-bioshores-ventures-closes-27-million-first-round-with-backing-from-surgeons-and-clinicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884152\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical tech fund Bioshores Ventures closes $27 million first round with backing from surgeons and clinicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Merrill Lynch banker David Bottomley says he first became aware of the premiums global medical device firms were willing to pay for Australian science while overseeing a string of healthcare deals two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the success of stand-outs like hearing implant maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/cochlear-posts-first-decline-in-profit-since-covid-19-pandemic-20260817-p60p5w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cochlear<\/a>, medical technology, or medtech, is a notoriously complex sector and struggles to attract the same level of funding as the biotech industry, where the returns are far higher, but so are the risks of failure.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Merrill Lynch banker David Bottomley says he first became aware of the premiums global medical device firms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-884152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}