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Monday, April 22, 2013

Company News: Curetis Raises EUR 12.5 Million in Series B Round Led by New Investor HBM Partners

Co-investment of all current institutional investors as well as several private investors and management

- Company now has access to over EUR 20 million in cash for the next phase of commercial and operational growth

Curetis AG today announced the closing of a Series B financing round totaling EUR 12.5 million. The financing was led by HBM Partners, which has taken a EUR 6.0 million equity stake in Curetis. Dr. Alexander Asam of HBM will join Curetis’ supervisory board.

In addition, the company’s existing institutional investors aeris Capital, LSP Life Sciences Partners, Forbion Capital, BioMedInvest, Roche Venture Fund, CD Venture and KfW have contributed a total of EUR 5.6 million to the round on a pro rata basis. Curetis’ management as well as several of the company’s founders, private investors and board members also co-invested.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Company News: Curetis to Present Clinical Unyvero™ Data at ECCMID 2013 in Berlin

- Company to host medical symposium on molecular antibiotic resistance testing in standard care

Curetis AG today announced the presentation of top-line clinical data from various European cohorts and performance evaluation studies of the Unyvero™ System and the Unyvero™ P50 pneumonia cartridge at the European Conference of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2013 in Berlin. Data from the analysis of more than 1,000 patient samples and case reports will be presented in the poster session “Molecular diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia” on Monday, April 29, from 12:30-1:30pm.*