
X-COR Therapeutics provides a less invasive way to remove excess CO2 from patients with acute respiratory failure, enabling safer and more accessible respiratory support. The company offers a patent-pending medical device that uses a hybrid consumable cartridge and ultra-low blood flows (<300 ml/min) to extract CO2 through small catheters, together with a control algorithm that leverages machine-learning techniques. The system is designed to work with existing hospital device infrastructure and to be placed and managed with fewer specialized staff than high-flow extracorporeal alternatives. X-COR is a medical device company focused on hospital and critical-care settings where extracorporeal CO2 removal can reduce reliance on high-flow therapies. The technology targets clinicians treating symptomatic lung failure and aims to broaden access to extracorporeal CO2 removal.

X-COR Therapeutics provides a less invasive way to remove excess CO2 from patients with acute respiratory failure, enabling safer and more accessible respiratory support. The company offers a patent-pending medical device that uses a hybrid consumable cartridge and ultra-low blood flows (<300 ml/min) to extract CO2 through small catheters, together with a control algorithm that leverages machine-learning techniques. The system is designed to work with existing hospital device infrastructure and to be placed and managed with fewer specialized staff than high-flow extracorporeal alternatives. X-COR is a medical device company focused on hospital and critical-care settings where extracorporeal CO2 removal can reduce reliance on high-flow therapies. The technology targets clinicians treating symptomatic lung failure and aims to broaden access to extracorporeal CO2 removal.
What they do: Develop an ultra-low-blood-flow extracorporeal CO2 removal medical device for acute respiratory failure
Founded: 2017
Tech / approach: Patent-pending hybrid consumable cartridge + machine-learning control algorithm; <300 ml/min blood flows
Target setting: Hospital and critical-care settings; aim to enable use outside ICU with smaller catheters and simpler workflows
Recent funding signal: Seed round Nov 12, 2020; investors include Alira Health Ventures and others
Acute hypercarbic respiratory failure; extracorporeal CO2 removal to reduce need for high-flow respiratory therapies
2017
Biotechnology
Latest disclosed round per company profiles (multiple seed rounds listed across history)
“Has raised multiple seed rounds and lists investors including Alira Health Ventures, Flybridge, Good Growth Capital, MassChallenge, MedTech Innovator, PiSA Biopharm, and The Graduate Syndicate”