Daktari Diagnostics and BL Healthcare Find Early Investors: More Signs of Life for Medtech Startups
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xconomy.com
August 27, 2009
Ryan McBride
Here are two reasons to believe that there are investors out there willing to make a bet on your young startup: BL Healthcare and Daktari Diagnostics, both of which reported in SEC documents over the past few days that they’ve raised private capital.
Biotech startup Daktari Diagnostics lands $2.5M
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Mass High Tech
August 27, 2009
Staff
Daktari Diagnostics Inc., an Arlington startup focused on global health diagnostics, has received $2.5 million of a planned $2.9 million equity financing, according to a federal regulatory filing.
Investment Fund company, Targanox, featured on NECN
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NECN-TV
August 26, 2009
Life Image Captures $2.5M Series A, Working with EMC for Digital Medical Image Service
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Xconomy.com
June 4, 2009
Ryan McBride
Life Image was launched in January 2008 with core software developed at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. Now the Newton, MA-based startup is charging ahead with cash from a $2.5 million Series A round of equity financing closed quietly in April, aiming to close gaps in the way digital medical images are shared and stored, company officials tell Xconomy.
Life Image lands 2M for medical imaging
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Mass High Tech
June 4, 2009
Marc Songini
Newton-based medical imaging apps startup Life Image Inc. has raised $2.2 million, according to official documents.
Fate Therapeutics Amasses More Academic Stem Cell IP with Children's Hospital Boston Deal
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genomeweb.com
May 15, 2009
Fate Therapeutics, a stem cell therapeutics company founded in 2007 on technology licensed from several US academic and research institutions, said last week that it has bolstered its patent portfolio by exclusively licensing intellectual property from the lab of one of its scientific co-founders.
GE healthcare and Brigham and Women's Hospital Announce Major Molecular Imaging Research Agreement
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www.dotmed.com
April 13, 2009
GE Healthcare announced the company has signed a research agreement with Brigham and Women's Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, to establish a landmark alliance in medical research in area of Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
Google searches for its own path in corporate VC
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Mass High Tech
April 13, 2009
Galen Moore
Among venture capital investors, there’s a saying that when corporations start investing, you know you’re on the back side of the bubble.
TargAnox Launches with $5.1M Series A Round, Targeting Oxidative Stress to Treat Diseases
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Xconomy
March 30, 2009
Ryan McBride
In this ugly economy, it takes a special recipe of compelling science and willing investors to launch a new biotech startup
Easy-off tattoo ink: Change of Heart
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Boston Herald
March 30, 2009
Greg Turner
The ink’s not even dry on the launch of a new type of tattoo ink, and already
Biotech startup closes on $5M financing
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Mass High Tech
March 30, 2009
Marc Songini
Boston-based biotech startup TargAnox Inc. has closed a $5.1 million Series A round, with Partners Innovation Fund LLC, the venture capital unit of Partners HealthCare Inc. in Boston, putting up $250,000.
Hospital-Backed Partners VC Fund Finds Deals Close to Home--Here's the Early List
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Xconomy.com
December 2, 2008
It occured to me that Partners Innovation Fund, unlike all other venture investors I can think of, knows exactly where it will find its future deals...
Cholesterol-Fighting Drugs Show Wider Benefit
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New York Times
November 10, 2008
A large new study suggests that millions more people could benefit from taking the cholesterol-lowering durgs known as statins...
Neuroptix nabs $18.5M in second round
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Mass High Tech
Ocotober 22, 2008
Alzheimer's disease detection company Neuroptix Corp. has taken in $18.5 million in a Series B round of funding, to help push its diagnostic test toward clinical...
Link Medicine lands $40M in Series C round
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Mass High Tech
September 30, 2008
Neurology-focused biotech Link Medicine Corp. raised $40 million in a Series C round of financing backed by Cambridge-based Clarus Ventures and SV Life Sciences...
Scientific research with an asterik
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Boston Globe
April 29, 2008
David A. Shaywitz and Dennis A. Ausiello
Consider an academic scientist - we'll call him Louis - who receives funding from teh beverage industry, the textile industry, and the livestock industry, and ultimately generates profound new scientific insights...
Bedford biotech gains steam and attention
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Boston Globe
April 22, 2008
For years, many doctors have extolled the medical benefits of eating oily fish, which are laden with omega-3 fatty acids thought to reduce the risk of heart disease and other conditions...
Op-Ed: Legislators' cure in need of malady; Conflicts don't sicken health care
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Boston Herald
April 17, 2008
by Dennis Ausiello and Thomas P. Stossel
Many discoveries leading to extended longevity and improved life quality originate in Massachusetts clinics and laboratories. But they only benefit our citizens becasue of the private companies that develop...
Povasculon launches with $6M and new home at Biogen incubator
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Mass High Tech
March 24, 2008
The Boston area's largest hospital system and one of its biggest biotechnology firms have formed a biotech startup to develop new cardiovascular treatments.