NEW YORK, NY: Today Opentrons Labworks Inc. has announced SoftBank Vision Fund 2* has led the company’s $200 million Series C investment with participation by Khosla Ventures. Opentrons will use this fundraising round to further invest in its automated lab platform globally. “Biology opens the door to solve many of humanity’s grand challenges. For far […]

Menlo Park, CA and Billerica, MA – Gamma Biosciences, a global life sciences company serving the advanced therapy market, today announced a strategic investment in Nirrin Technologies, a provider of next generation sensors and analytics for real-time, in-process monitoring and analysis in upstream and downstream bioprocessing applications for the biopharma and life science industries. Nirrin’s platform utilizes […]

TORONTO — Genetics software startup PhenoTips® announced today that it has raised CAD $2.5 million in an oversubscribed seed fundraising round led by the GreenSky Accelerator Fund IV. This round includes the support of the Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners, Thin Air Labs, Yorkville Partners, and angel investors including members of the GreenSky President’s Club. PhenoTips empowers healthcare […]

Genomics-Focused Fund Will Support Start-Ups in Healthcare Innovation San Francisco – Illumina Ventures, an independently-managed, healthcare-focused venture firm, announced today the closing of its second investment fund with total commitments of $325 million, bringing its total capital under management to $560 million. The latest fund is anchored by Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), with the majority […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — NanoCellect Biomedical Inc. (“NanoCellect”), the market-leading provider of microfluidic cell sorting solutions to advance cellular discoveries announced the close of $35M of financing to further accelerate commercial growth plans and new product development goals. “The past 18 months have been challenging given the ongoing pandemic, but our WOLF Pack completed the development and […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Flywheel, the leading biomedical research data management platform, today announces a $22 million Series C funding round, with more financing expected in the coming weeks, as investors show continued confidence in the company’s growth and market impact. The Series C funding supported Flywheel’s recent acquisition of Radiologics. (Graphic: Shutterstock) The funding round is […]

BOSTON — Seven Bridges, the industry-leading bioinformatics ecosystem provider, and Scripps Research have been awarded a $7.5M contract to develop a federated data ecosystem for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under a project titled the NIAID Data Ecosystem (NDE). The NDE will be a secure environment to find, access, query and analyze data from select NIAID repositories, […]

Seattle, WA – RareCyte, Inc. (“RareCyte” or “the Company”) a Life Sciences company developing and manufacturing proprietary platforms enabling precision biology solutions, announced today the completion of a $24M financing from new and existing investors. The funding will drive the commercialization and applications for the Company’s new Orion spatial biology platform and further global expansion […]

Fremont, CA — Alamar Biosciences, Inc., a precision proteomics company that brings both ultra-high sensitivity and massively parallel scale to proteomic analysis, announced today that it has closed its $80 million Series B financing round, bringing its total funding to $110 million. The Series B financing round was led by Sherpa Healthcare Partners and included […]

Company plans to expand research and development and scale commercial organization to support global customer base  BOSTON, MA — Emulate, Inc., a leading provider of next generation in vitro models, today announced the close of an $82 million Series E financing round led by existing investor Northpond Ventures with additional participation from Perceptive Advisors. With this investment, Emulate has raised nearly $225 million to date. “This […]