Cohera Medical

What Cohera Medical does

Cohera Medical is a privately held medical device company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company develops surgical adhesives and sealants designed for application and use in surgical procedures, addressing tissue closure, leak prevention, and wound-sealing needs across surgical specialties. Its product focus sits within the broader surgical sealants and tissue patches market where it competes against larger medtech players such as Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic as well as specialty peers. The company operates with a lean headcount of 11–50 employees and is led scientifically by Chief Scientific Officer Dottie Clower.

Over its operating history, Cohera Medical has raised approximately $135 million across eight discrete financing rounds between 2006 and 2015, with the largest single event being a $50 million Series 4 led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in October 2015. Bradford Capital Partners and Kern Whelan Capital participated in earlier Series 2 financing in 2008. No publicly disclosed revenue, customer base, pricing model, or commercial channel structure is available in the provided sources, and the firm's own website content was not accessible during data collection.

The business model is consistent with a Class III surgical device company: revenue is generated through sales of proprietary, regulatory-cleared adhesive and sealant products to hospitals and surgical centers, typically via specialty surgical distributors or direct sales force. The absence of any disclosed funding event, product launch, partnership, or leadership change since October 2015 — combined with no documented customer logos, partnerships, distribution agreements, or geographic expansion — is itself a material signal that warrants diligence on the company's current commercial velocity, product lifecycle status, and runway sufficiency.

Name

Cohera Medical

Website

https://coheramedical.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cohera Medical is a Pittsburgh-based medical device company that develops surgical adhesives and sealants for use in surgical procedures, serving hospitals and surgical centers with proprietary tissue-closure products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Surgical Adhesives and Sealants

NAICS

Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113), Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (339112)

SIC

Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies (3842), Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841)

akta.pro primary industry

Wound Closure & Securement (Sutures, Staples, Tissue Adhesives, Skin Closure Strips) (HLAHALAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wound Healing & Skin Regeneration (advanced dressings, skin substitutes) (HLAAAGAG)

Keywords

• Surgical adhesives
• Tissue sealants
• Medical device manufacturing
• Surgical wound closure
• Biocompatible adhesives

Headquarters

HQ city

Pittsburgh

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Cohera Medical develops surgical adhesives and sealants for use in surgical procedures. The company manufactures tissue-adhesive products designed for application during surgery to support wound closure and sealing. It operates as a medical device manufacturer selling proprietary surgical adhesive products.

Product overview

No specific product information for Cohera Medical is available in the provided source data. The news sources discuss the broader surgical sealants and tissue patches market, mentioning competitors like Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, H.B. Fuller, and Animus Surgical, but no Cohera Medical products are detailed.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Surgical adhesives and sealants Proprietary surgical adhesive and sealant products designed for application during surgical procedures to support tissue sealing and wound closure. Targeted at hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and surgeons performing procedures that require tissue-adhesive closure.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Animus Surgical: Emerging surgical adhesives/sealants developer named alongside Cohera in the source data. Comparable as a smaller, niche participant in the same surgical sealants and tissue patches market.

Broad incumbents

• Baxter International: Large MedTech incumbent with a broad surgical and hemostasis portfolio including sealants and tissue adhesives (e.g., Tisseel, Floseal), competing with Cohera in the OR setting across multiple surgical specialties.
• Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon): Ethicon, J&J's surgical solutions division, offers tissue adhesives, sealants, and hemostats and is explicitly named as a competitor in the source data. Comparable because it sells surgical sealants used in the same OR use cases as Cohera's products.
• BD (Becton Dickinson): Global MedTech with a surgery and biosurgery portfolio that includes sealants and hemostats. Comparable because it competes in the OR tissue sealing category that Cohera addresses, while operating as a much larger diversified player.
• Integra LifeSciences: Specialty MedTech company with tissue adhesives, dural sealants, and regenerative wound care products. Comparable because it serves overlapping surgical specialties with adhesive and sealant solutions used to close or seal tissue.
• Medtronic: Diversified MedTech leader named as a competitor in the surgical sealants market. Comparable via its surgical and perioperative portfolio that includes products competing in tissue sealing and reinforcement use cases.

Direct peers

• Artivion: Surgical adhesives and sealants specialist (formerly CryoLife) selling BioGlue and other tissue adhesives for cardiac, vascular, and general surgery. Closely comparable specialty adhesive business competing in the same surgeon call point as Cohera.
• Advanced Medical Solutions Group: UK-listed MedTech focused on wound closure, surgical sealants, and tissue adhesives (e.g., LiquiBand). Comparable because it commercializes surgical tissue adhesives and sealants used in OR settings, overlapping directly with Cohera's product category.
• Adhesys Medical: German specialty MedTech developing cyanoacrylate-based topical and surgical tissue adhesives. Comparable as a smaller, science-driven adhesive developer competing in similar clinical use cases for tissue closure and sealing.
• Tissuemed: UK-based surgical sealant company focused on tissue sealant films and patches used across multiple surgical indications. Comparable as a focused, indication-overlapping competitor in surgical tissue sealing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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