Viveve Announces Update to Corporate Strategy
Reconfirms plans for near-term focus on Stress Urinary Incontinence clinical strategy
Announces plans to further reduce operating expenses and cash burn rate
Strengthens balance sheet through warrant exercise for approximately $3 million in proceeds
ENGLEWOOD, CO / ACCESSWIRE / April 17, 2020 / Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVE), a medical technology company focused on women’s intimate health, today provided a company update, including plans to significantly reduce operating expenses and cash burn rate, steps to strengthen its balance sheet and reconfirmation of near-term focus to advance development program for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women.
“Today we have taken important steps towards preserving and creating long-term value by adjusting our commercial activities to focus on our existing customers while retaining the ability to re-scale commercial growth quickly in the future, preserving cash and strengthening our balance sheet to focus on our fully enrolled SUI clinical trial in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis,” said Scott Durbin, Viveve’s chief executive officer. “We now have approximately $11-$12 million in cash (pro forma as of March 31, 2020) and expect that our strategic realignment and cost reduction efforts will result in a cash burn-rate of approximately $2M per quarter in Q3 and Q4 of 2020.”
Spending Reductions and Organizational Realignment
In response to COVID-19, Viveve has implemented a range of operational changes designed to support the safety and health of our employees, customers, distribution partners and other contacts as necessary. In addition, the company is implementing a series of significant cost-cutting actions designed to reduce expenses and reposition resources to support the company’s current customers and its pivotal clinical development program for our Cryogen-cooled, Monopolar Radiofrequency (CMRF) technology in the treatment of SUI. These deliberate actions are tailored to allow the company to re-scale its commercial and operational activities as conditions improve.
Warrant Exercise and Cash Resources
Viveve also announced a successful warrant exercise transaction with current company investors and had $9.0M cash as of the end of the first quarter 2020. The financing together with the company’s existing cash have strengthened Viveve’s balance sheet and provide the resources necessary to maintain the company’s business strategy and advance the SUI clinical development plan.
Advancing Development Program in SUI
The SUI clinical development program and potential label expansion for this indication present an opportunity to address a major area of unmet need in women’s intimate health for Viveve’s CMRF technology. An estimated 25-30 million women worldwide who suffer from the SUI medical condition could potentially benefit from a noninvasive single session treatment with Viveve System, representing an estimated $10 – $12 billion market opportunity. The reorganized Viveve team is positioned to achieve multiple important clinical milestones within the next few months to advance the SUI program. These include the anticipated readout from the 3-arm SUI feasibility trial in the late summer of this year and the potential launch of the multicenter, randomized double-blinded, sham controlled SUI trial in the U.S., now entitled PURSUIT (Prospective U.S. Radiofrequency SUI Trial) pending FDA approval of the company’s recently resubmitted IDE. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Viveve’s CMRF treatment versus an inert sham tip for the improvement of SUI in women.
“The challenges to the global business community have been unprecedented and have required swift action and innovation for many companies. SUI represents an important commercial opportunity for Viveve and the decisions we have made to improve efficiency, reduce costs and strengthen our cash position have provided us with a clear path forward towards achieving several important milestones later this year,” said Mr. Durbin. “I would like to thank all of our employees, customers, investigators and business partners for supporting our efforts and for positioning Viveve to continue to advance our efforts to bring a new treatment option to the millions of women around the world who face the physical and emotional challenges of SUI.”
About Viveve
Viveve Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on women’s intimate health. Viveve is committed to advancing new solutions to improve women’s overall well-being and quality of life. The internationally patented Viveve® System incorporates CMRF technology to uniformly deliver volumetric heating while gently cooling surface tissue to generate neocollagenesis in a single in-office session. In the United States, the Viveve System is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in general surgical procedures for electrocoagulation and hemostasis. International regulatory approvals and clearances have been received for vaginal laxity and/or improvement in sexual function indications in more than 50 countries.
For more information visit Viveve’s website at www.viveve.com.
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