Akadeum Life Sciences closes an oversubscribed round and plans to expand commercialization of proprietary biological separation platform.  Dan Kidle, Managing Partner at Arboretum Ventures, joins Akadeum board of directors. Ann Arbor, MI – Akadeum Life Sciences, Inc., today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $17.5 million Series B financing led by Arboretum Ventures. Investors in the […]

Company launches first-of-its-kind platform for performing no-code CRISPR workflows via any web browser SAN FRANCISCO — Latch Bio, a company building data infrastructure for the biocomputing revolution, today announced the closing of a $5 million seed funding round led by Lux Capital with participation from General Catalyst, Haystack, Fifty Years, and Asimov co-founder and CEO, […]

The start up Celtarys Research, born at the University of Santiago de Compostela and dedicated to the development of fluorescent tools for drug discovery, has closed a seed capital investment round of 650,000 euros. In the round have participated the Galician institutional funds of the Xunta de Galicia – through XesGalicia – and VigoActivo, as […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Draper has received a $719,000 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance the company’s tissue-chip platform for advanced studies of viral infection. With the contract, Draper will design a model for human airway tissue and adapt its PREDICT96 platform to collect data for SARS-CoV-2 infection studies. The […]

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 […]