Pump from Next Investors received in inbox. Interesting company but not even making revenue yet if I'm following CommSec. However FDA clearance and already adoption by a major U.S hospital is a heads up? Recent capital raise @ 30c at what they describe as an 'inflection point, described by Next Investors as:
"The Inflection Point Raise - Goals have been achieved, share price is up, the market believes the company is onto something and a large capital raise provides the company with multiple years of runway to expand and grow - to deliver at an “inflection point” where the company moves to the next level."
"This week our Investment EchoIQ (ASX: EIQ) secured an important “inflection point” raise.
$17.3M raised at 30 cents, with no options issued. We participated.
EIQ has an AI-powered algorithm that helps cardiologists detect heart diseases.
The technology has clearance from the FDA and it is being used in hospitals right now in the US.
The product is proven, approved and currently in use in a few hospitals.
The next step - get EIQ’s tech into hundreds of hospitals and turn those partnerships into revenues.
And EIQ evolves from a “med tech development” story to a “velocity of revenue growth” story.
This is what most of the new money raised this week will be used for.
On the morning of the EIQ trading halt, we jumped on a video presentation with EIQ’s CEO Dustin Haines hosted by the lead broker of the raise. Dustin’s presentation and concise summary of the EIQ opportunity was genuinely one of the best we have seen in years.
EIQ’s CEO Dustin is a great presenter, and the main thing he explained really well was how this particular capital raise will fund EIQ for its next inflection point.
Post capital raise EIQ should have $20M+ which is enough of a cash runway for EIQ to deliver:
Commercialisation of its AI-based Aortic Stenosis detection technology (get it into many more hospitals)
FDA clearance for its next product - AI-based Heart Failure detection technology
That means EIQ can now use its giant cash balance to work on integrations into as many hospitals as it can (for its Aortic Stenosis tech)...
AND then once (if) the FDA clearance for the Heart Failure tech comes in (expected later this year), EIQ can flick a switch and distribute that tech to all of the in-place integration partners at the time.
So in 6-9 months time, if everything goes to plan, EIQ will have technology applicable for two heart conditions FDA cleared, integrated into clinics and (hopefully) rapidly growing revenues…
And with this $17.3M raise just completed, it has the capital to deliver these objectives."
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