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Roundup: AWAK bags $20M in Series B funding and more briefs

By Adam Ang 10:24 pm September 14, 2023

AWAK bags $20M in Series B funding Despite a challenging market condition, Singapore-based medtech AWAK Technologies has raised more than $20 million in a Series B funding round – one of the biggest funding raises in Southeast Asia this year. The round was co-led by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners. AWAK is developing a portable peritoneal dialysis device that allows users to undergo...

FDA grants breakthrough designation for AWAK’s Peritoneal Dialysis device

By Dean Koh 02:02 am January 11, 2019

Earlier this week, AWAK Technologies (AWAK), a Singapore-headquartered medical technology company focused on dialysis using regeneration technology for end-stage renal disease, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device designation to its AWAK Peritoneal Dialysis (AWAK PD) device, a wearable and ultra-portable PD system that incorporates AWAK’s...