Existing shareholders, including IP Group and Finance Wales, have supplied additional capital to Cardiff spinout Alesi Surgical.

Alesi Surgical, a medical device spinout of Cardiff University, has raised £5.2m ($6.8m) in a round featuring commercialisation firm IP Group.

Welsh government-own investment firm Finance Wales as well as VC firms Panakes Partners and Earlybird also took part in the round.

Founded in 2009, Alesi Surgical – formerly known as Asalus Medical Instruments – commercialises inventions developed in Welsh Institute for Minimal Access Therapy (Wimat).

Alesi specialises in keyhole surgical technology. Its lead product, Ultravision, uses electrostatic technology to…

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