Start-Up Spotlight: CorWave Takes Inspiration From Nature To Tackle Heart Failure
Executive Summary
Following a €2.5m award from the European Commission’s EIC Accelerator Program, Paris based CorWave has become the first EU company to obtain EIC fund investment. The company is developing a new pulsatile LVAD.
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