Boston, Mass. – Sample6, a company focused on applying biotechnology to advance food safety, announced today that it has secured a $11 million Series B financing round led by Canaan Partners. Joining the round are Cultivian Sandbox, a fund which invests in emerging technologies in the food and agriculture industry, and Series A lead investor […]

Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced that the company continues to grow in a challenging business environment. Tecan maintains its outlook for an increased operating profit margin and adjusts its revenue outlook for 2013. As communicated before, the operating profit margin is expected to grow by around 50 basis […]

BRANFORD, Conn. — AxioMx Inc. announced today that it has completed its second financing round, raising $2 million in investment from Connecticut Innovations (CI), Elm Street Ventures, Vital Venture Capital and AxioMx company founders. “We are excited to add Vital Venture Capital to our group of investors, and we are inspired by the continued confidence […]

LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Boreal Genomics, a privately held provider of technology for non-invasive genomic profiling of tumors from blood plasma of cancer patients, announced today the completion of an $18 million Series C financing round. The financing will be used to expand commercial operations in the translational research market, scale laboratory capabilities and launch […]

LANSING, Mich. — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a three-for-two stock split. With the split, shareholders of record on Oct. 15, 2013, will receive one additional share of stock for each two shares held. The stock split will be effected in the form of a stock dividend […]

SAN DIEGO — BioNano Genomics announced today a $10 million financing to support the ongoing development and commercialization of the IrysTM System for human genome analysis. Current investors, Battelle Ventures, Domain Associates, Gund Investment Corporation, participated in the financing. “BioNano Genomics has made significant progress in commercializing the Irys System first in the U.S. and […]

FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCQB: WGBS) announced today that it has completed a private placement to accredited investors of $15,037,500 of units consisting of shares of common stock, shares of Series 1 convertible preferred stock and warrants to purchase shares of common stock. As previously announced, at the initial closing of the offering […]

Toronto, Canada — TellSpec today announced the launch of its Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the development and manufacture of its handheld device, which scans and analyzes the composition of food so consumers know the real ingredients before they buy or eat food. TellSpec is a reliable and accurate personal device that detects nutrients, […]

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, announced today that the company has been awarded supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Building on the success of their current Phase II SBIR program, the additional funding will help to accelerate the transition of Daylight Solution’s mid-infrared […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and High Technology company (the “Company” or “Sigma-Aldrich”), announces a quarterly cash dividend of $0.215 per common share. The dividend was approved by the Company’s Board of Directors on September 15, 2013 and is payable on December 13, 2013 to shareholders of record at […]