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HeartSciences Closes Non-Dilutive Financing to Increase its Cash Runaway Ahead of Upcoming FDA Submission
Southlake, TX, Sept. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences (NASDAQ: HSCS; HSCSW) (“HeartSciences” or the “Company”),
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[{"type":"text","content":"Southlake, TX, Sept. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences (NASDAQ: HSCS; HSCSW) (“HeartSciences” or the “Company”), an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical technology company focused on transforming ECGs/EKGs to save lives through earlier detection of heart disease, today announced the close of a non-dilutive financing, with $1.9 million in net proceeds. The unsecured loan note has an 18-month maturity date and follows the recent 12-month extension of a $500,000 loan note to September 2025. Andrew Simpson, CEO of HeartSciences, said, “We have extended our capital runway by $2.4 million since late August ahead of our upcoming FDA submissions. This has been achieved with non-dilutive capital and provides significant opportunity for HeartSciences to hit a number of valuable commercial milestones.” About HeartSciences Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences is a medical technology company focused on applying innovative AI-based technology to an ECG (also known as an EKG) to expand and improve an ECG's clinical utility. Millions of ECGs are performed every week and the Company's objective is to improve healthcare by making it a far more valuable cardiac screening tool, particularly in frontline or point-of-care clinical settings. HeartSciences has one of the largest libraries of AI-ECG algorithms and is developing AI-ECG solutions to be made available on either a hardware agnostic cloud-based platform or its proprietary MyoVista® wavECG™ device, to help identify cardiovascular disease in any care setting worldwide in a manner to best suit different care providers. HeartSciences' first product candidate for FDA clearance, the MyoVista® wavECG™, or the MyoVista®, is a resting 12-lead ECG that is also designed to provide diagnostic information related to cardiac dysfunction which has traditionally only been available through the use of cardiac imaging. The MyoVista® also provides conventional ECG information in the same test. For more information, please visit: https://heartsciences.com/. X: @HeartSciences Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are made under the \"s...