Nuvaira: Zapping overactive airway nerves
Plymouth, Minn.
Founded: 2008
Nuvaira’s Lung Denervation System is a catheter-based system meant to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. It treats overactive airway nerves in a one-time procedure called targeted lung denervation that provides ablative therapy to nerves to open obstructed airways.
The system is under clinical investigation. Nuvaira announced in February that it had raised $79 million in a new equity financing round.