CytoSMART Omni – The world’s smallest live-cell imager Eindhoven, The Netherlands – CytoSMART, the Eindhoven-based company that develops and manufactures digital microscopes for monitoring live cell cultures, has received 5.2 million Euros to fund the growth of their business. New investor Eindhoven Venture Capital Fund II joined existing investors Holland Capital and BOM Brabant Ventures. […]

LAVAL, QUEBEC, CANADA – March 25, 2019 – Prometic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX:PLI, OTCQX: PFSCF) (“Prometic” or the “Corporation”) announced today that it has secured an additional USD $5 million (CAD $6.7 million) tranche fromStructured Alpha LP (“SALP”), an affiliate of Thomvest Asset Management Inc., under the existing loan agreement originally entered into with SALP […]

Nexcelom Bioscience announces strategic growth investment from Ampersand Capital Partners Lawrence, MA — Nexcelom Bioscience, a leading provider of cell counting and analysis products for biomedical research and the biopharma industry, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from Ampersand Capital Partners.  The funding will be primarily used to support Nexcelom’s worldwide growth initiatives. […]

Ovation.io, a next-generation clinical informatics company, today announced Series A funding of $5 million led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from new investors Borealis Ventures, Nat Turner, Zach Weinberg, and existing investors StagedotO and David Shaw. Ovation.io provides operations and intelligence software for next-generation precision diagnostic labs. Ovation will use the funding to accelerate lab deployment […]

NEW YORK — Gencove, the leading low-pass genome sequencing platform, announced today a $3 million investment led by Spero Ventures. Alexandria Venture Investments and Burst Capital participated in the round, along with existing investors Third Kind Venture Capital and Version One Ventures. The funding will be used to develop new applications for agricultural markets as well as expand Gencove’s […]

Othram wins a research grant from Illumina Accelerator and presents at SXSW on breakthrough sequencing and informatics techniques for reconstructing genomes from challenging DNA samples.  THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS Othram, Inc. was awarded a research sequencing grant from Illumina Accelerator after presenting at SXSW for the “Digitizing Biology Through Genomics” session as part of the Energizing […]

Miniaturized gas chromatography system allows vastly decreased instrument size, versatility, portability, and speed of results. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Zebra Analytix™ is pleased to announce it has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award of $225,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue development of its miniaturized gas chromatography (microGC) analytical technology. Gas chromatography (GC) is a […]

Cambridge, Mass. – Beam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced the successful completion of a $135 million Series B financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the company’s development of next-generation CRISPR technologies, expand its pipeline of base editing programs, and further extend its scientific […]

Series B financing will drive expansion of commercial operations and development of new microOrgan® platforms MAPLE GROVE, MN – StemoniX® Inc., a biotech company revolutionizing how new medicines are discovered, announced today that it has secured $14.4 million USD in Series B funding from a group of institutional and private investors. Brightstone Venture Capital led the financing and […]

Grants further Synthego’s mission of providing the next generation of Genome Engineers access to CRISPR tools to enable novel research REDWOOD CITY, California — Synthego, a leading genome engineering innovation company, today announced its inaugural Genome Engineer Innovation Grant. As part of the company’s mission to make world-class genome engineering tools accessible to all scientists and bring […]