Last deal

$400M

Amount

Post-IPO Debt

Stage

01.01.2015

Date

2

all rounds

$400M

Total amount

General

About Company
The Medicines Company delivers innovative and cost-effective medicines to critical care patients in hospitals globally.

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Also Known As

MDCO

founded date

01.01.1996

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Post-IPO Debt

IPO status

Private

Description

The company provides products to the U.S. hospital market, including Angiomax, an anticoagulant drug used during angioplasty, and Cleviprex, a drug designed to control blood pressure in intensive-care settings. The Medicines Company also has two products in late-stage development: cangrelor, an investigational antiplatelet agent, and oritavancin, a semi-synthetic lipoglycopeptide antibiotic. Additionally, the company is working on an early-stage development project called CU2010, a serine protease inhibitor. Recently, The Medicines Company was acquired by Novartis.