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- The Trendlines Group Ltd. The Trendlines Group Ltd. is an Israel-based life sciences innovation commercialization company that invents, discovers, invests in, partners with, and incubates early-stage medical technologies (medtech) and agrifood technologies; it operates principally through four business units including Israeli government-franchised incubators Trendlines Medical and Trendlines Agtech, a Singapore incubator Trendlines Medical Singapore, and an in-house innovation center Trendlines Labs. The company maintains a portfolio of more than 50 companies focused on medtech areas such as cardiology, neurology and anesthesia, esthetics, gastroenterology, home healthcare, spine and orthopedics, surgery, urology and women's health; and agrifood areas including aquaculture and animal health, crop protection, digitization and robotics, future food and ingredients, and net-zero technologies, with representative portfolio companies encompassing AgroScout (AI-driven crop disease detection), Phytolon (natural food colors from yeast fermentation), Escala Medical (non-surgical pelvic organ prolapse repair), Vensica Medical (overactive bladder treatment), and EcoPhage (phage-based crop protection). Founded in 1993 and headquartered at 17 T’chelet Street in M.P. Misgav, Israel, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Singapore; and formerly Beijing, China, the group provides comprehensive support to its portfolio companies encompassing technology development, business building, funding strategies, market commercialization, and administrative services while targeting entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, strategic partners, and governments primarily in Israel and Singapore. Recent developments include portfolio company Escala Medical securing $4.5 million in funding co-financed by the EIC Fund in June 2025 to expand its FDA-approved Mendit device for women's health; IBI Ag raising $6.1 million in initial Series A funding led by Corteva in 2025; Arcuro Medical closing an initial Series A round led by Varana Capital with Trendlines participation; ElastiMed appointing medical device veteran Dr. Amir Belson to its board amid commercialization preparations; and Vensica Medical raising $11 million led by Israel Biotech Fund to advance Phase 2 trials for overactive bladder therapy, alongside ongoing exits such as the prior acquisitions of OrthoSpin by DePuy Synthes (Johnson & Johnson) in November 2021 and ApiFix by OrthoPediatrics Corp. in 2020.