Awarepoint finds $13.3M for location-pinpointing platform
Location systems developer Awarepoint raked in $13.3 million in fourth-round financing to expand its domestic and international presence in the radio frequency identification (RFID) space. The San Diego company’s platform, utilizing this technology, is able to track the precise location and movement of people and things.
Cardinal… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Acorn Cardio raises $22M for heart-failure device (bizjournals.com)
Agile Therapeutics raises $5.6M for women’s health (release)
Polyheal draws $1M for wound healing (Globes)
MatrixBio receives seed funding for cancer diagnostics (release)
Pacira Pharma names David Stack as CEO (release)
VivoMetrics appoints Howard Baker as CEO (release)
Acorn Cardio raises $22M… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
Featured companies: AxoGen, Cognition Therapeutics, Ester Neurosciences, Gene Security Network, HealthTalk, MPM Capital, Revolution Health, SparkPeople
UPDATING: Expanded items on AxoGen, Ester and Cognition. Posted full items on MPM (link) and Gene Security Network (link).
AxoGen raises $12M for nerve regeneration — AxoGen, an Alachua, Fla., biotech focused on… Continue Reading
AthenaHealth hosed by IPO process?
updated
AthenaHealth, a company that sells software to doctors to manage their billing and other office tasks, is just the latest company to appear cheated by the IPO process: It’s bankers helped it price the stock at $18, but by the end of the first day… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007
(UPDATED at 5:55pm PT: See below.)
Featured companies: Sierra Surgical Technologies, HerbalScience Nutraceuticals, Topigen Pharmaceuticals, EKR Therapeutics, Molecular Partners, Celsense, Glucose Sensing Technologies, Falcon Genomics, Waters, Calorimetry Sciences, Parion Sciences, Gilead Sciences, Isto Technologies, Fluidnet, NABsys
Sierra Surgical raises $7.1M — Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sierra Surgical Technologies, a developer… Continue Reading