Loci Orthopaedics, an Ireland-based medical device spinout from NUI Galway and KU Leuven, closed a €2.75m ($3.2m) seed round yesterday that featured KU Leuven’s seed capital vehicle Gemma Frisius Fund.

Enterprise Ireland, the state-owned enterprise support agency, and the Western Development Commission, a statutory board responsible for social and economic development in the western region of Ireland, also contributed to the round, as did assorted angel investors.

Loci Orthopaedics is working on an implant that mimics the natural motion of…