The St. Paul, Minnesota company that got national attention for a viral YouTube video last month is looking to raise up to $20 million in equity offerings, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week.Envoy Medical Corp. is the maker of Esteem, a battery-operated, implantable hearing device that received U.S. [...]

Here’s how you quantify the power of a viral video. More than 7.7 million views = a 150 percent jump in sales inquiries for the hearing aide company Envoy Medical.var page_count = “off”; if (typeof OAS_rdl == “undefined”) {document.write(“”); page_count = “on”;}var MMI_ClickURL = “”; [...]

Envoy Medical’s Esteem hearing aid has a perpetual publicity boost through a $250,000 a month agreement to be the hearing aid Rush Limbaugh uses. But the Minnesota-based medical device company just got some free marketing magic: a video by one of its customers has gone viral.Sarah Churman, 29, posted the video of her hearing her [...]

Envoy Medical Corp. is raising $6.5 million in equity, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Envoy is the maker of Esteem, an implantable hearing device. Esteem was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March 2010. The device, which is implanted behind the ear, requires invasive surgery and costs [...]

Envoy Medical Corp. should send Rush Limbaugh a fruit basket. Thanks in large part to Limbaugh’s plug on his popular radio show, Envoy in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, recently raised another $16.4 million, including $10 million from hearing aid powerhouse Starkey Laboratories Inc., for its implantable hearing device, Esteem.

Harvey Fletcher, a scientist at Bell Laboratories, is widely credited with inventing the electric hearing aid — a cumbersome, body-worn device that debuted in the 1930s. Eighty years later, ReSound in Bloomington, Minnesota, is trying to solve a problem that has eluded decades of innovation: reconcile the problematic device with ordinary life, 21st Century-style.

Fresh from winning regulatory approval for its Esteem hearing device, Envoy Medical Corp. is seeking $16.5 million from the sale of equity, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The company, based in White Bear Township, Minn., has so far raised $330,000.In March, the Food and Drug Administration approved Envoy’s Esteem hearing technology, [...]

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Envoy Medical Corp.’s Esteem technology, the first fully implantable device to treat hearing loss in the United States.’The approval of Esteem provides patients with an option to alleviate their hearing loss by using a device with no readily visible external components,’ Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s [...]

In an interview, Roger Lucas, a former senior vice president and chief scientific officer for Techne, says he believes Envoy will go public in two years and reach a $3 billion to $5 billion market cap.

CEO Patrick Spearman said he expects the FDA to grant Envoy’s Premarket Approval (PMA) application by next February. Although FDA advisory panel recommendations are not binding, the agency almost always follows them.