{"id":357473,"date":"2010-02-24T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=64897"},"modified":"2010-02-24T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:07:21","slug":"luminus-devices-nabs-19m-aveo-sets-ipo-range-thermo-fisher-scientific-reportedly-makes-6-b-move-on-millipore-more-boston-area-deals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/357473","title":{"rendered":"Luminus Devices Nabs $19M, Aveo Sets IPO Range, Thermo Fisher Scientific Reportedly Makes $6 B Move on Millipore, & More Boston-Area Deals News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup<\/a>, deals<\/a>, VC<\/a><\/div>\n

\t\tRebecca Zacks wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a good week for venture dealmaking among New England’s tech and life sciences firms.<\/p>\n

—Needham, MA-based Stata Venture Partners led a $7 million Series B financing round for NABsys<\/a>, a Providence, RI-based firm developing a DNA sequencing technology that employs silicon chips for rapid electronic detection of DNA sequences.<\/p>\n

—Boston-based Battery Ventures sold Woburn, MA-based analytic instrument maker Nova Analytics,<\/a> which it helped buy out in 2003, for an undisclosed sum to White Plains, NY-based ITT.<\/p>\n

—EveryScape, a Waltham, MA-based operator of a website providing navigable, 360-degree views of metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas, raised $6 million in a Series C funding round led by SK Telecom Americas<\/a>, and joined by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Dace Ventures.<\/p>\n

—North End Technologies, a robotics and communications company in Waltham, raised $2.5 million from Castile Ventures<\/a>, company executives, and angel investors, and converted $1.8 million in preexisting debt to equity, according to CEO Brad Kayton.<\/p>\n

—Boston-based Fluent Mobile, maker of the iPhone news-aggregating app Fluent News Reader, raised $1.25 million in equity funding<\/a>, according to a regulatory filing.<\/p>\n

—Milwaukee, WI-based Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MERG<\/a>) made a $6.05 per share buyout offer<\/a> for Boston-based radiology information management company Amicas (NASDAQ: AMCS<\/a>). Amicas’ board of directors deemed the offer risky, though, and urged …Next Page »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Roundup, deals, VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: It was a good week for venture dealmaking among New England’s tech and life sciences firms. —Needham, MA-based Stata Venture Partners led a $7 million Series B financing round for NABsys, a Providence, RI-based firm developing a DNA sequencing technology that employs silicon chips for rapid electronic detection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}