NextBio takes $8M for scientific search engine
NextBio, a search engine that scours the net specifically for information related to the life sciences, has raised $8 million in a third round of funding from Newbury Ventures. Targeted at researchers, the Cupertino, Calif. based service, provides mostly journal articles, scientific news, and updates on clinical trials. It plans to use the new financing to expand internationally and continue developing its technology. And because it is packaged as a software-as-a-service, it is easy to… Continue Reading
NextBio semantic search promises new opportunities for health researchers
The Internet long ago shed its ethereal status as a meeting ground for researchers and scientists, but that doesn’t mean it has lost its utility for those groups. New technologies, now mainly aimed at general consumer applications, are also being turned to more specialized purposes.
Semantic search is a good example. With its ability to connect data in a machine-readable way, it’s perfect for easing research, and has often been pointed to as part of the… Continue Reading
Life science search engine NextBio raises $7M, led by Newbury Ventures
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NextBio, a Cupertino, Calif. company that has built a search engine for life sciences, has raised $7 million in a second round of funding led by Newbury Ventures, and including other undisclosed investors
VentureBeat first wrote about the company here.
The company in 2005 raised $1.1 million, and last year got a $160,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Nextbio is latest search engine — for healthcare research community
Nextbio is a new search engine for the biotech-health industry, something you could have seen coming a mile away.
The nation’s multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry is the equal sister to the information technology sector. In IT, you have plenty of niche search engines, such as Koders and Google Code Search. On the healthcare side, you’ve got a bunch of search engines focused on consumers, but few serious sites oriented to the biotech business-research community.
There’s the… Continue Reading