VC Private Financings for Bioprotection

Innovative Biosensors raises $11,500,000

Innovative Biosensors Inc., a company developing rapid, ultra-sensitive tests to identify harmful pathogens, today announced the completion of an $11.5 million Series B financing. The new proceeds will be used to accelerate the commercialization of IBI’s sensitive, and rapid biosensor-based technology for the detection of hospital and community acquired infections. Based on the CANARY® technology […]

Passport Systems raises $10,000,000

Passport Systems Inc. raises $10 million.  Passport Systems provides solutions to the problem of detection and identification of materials in a supply chain: from the manufacturing stages, through storage, packing, shipment, delivery, and disposal. Its technologies are applied to the non-intrusive, non-destructive inspection of products, in industrial processes, and in packaged or containerized materials. Their […]

AirInSpace raises $8,500,000

AirInSpace, the leading supplier of mobile ‘catch and kill’ bioprotection devices in the French medical market, announced today that it has closed on an $8.5 million (6 million euro) Series B round of financing. Created in 2002, the AirInSpace company offers an innovative range of products and services to address the need for microbial decontamination […]

Food Quality Sensor International raises $5,600,000

Food Quality Sensor International Inc. (FQSI) of Lexington, Massachusetts, a Life Sciences company that merges sophisticated homeland security sensor science with food safety technology, announced today that it has completed a $5.6 Million Series B financing In December 2006 the Company launched SensorfreshQ™, a consumer handheld “electronic nose” that detects meat and poultry spoilage. FQSI […]

Ahura Scientific raises $7,000,000

Ahura Scientific, Inc., a leader in rugged, handheld optical systems for chemical identification, today announced it has expanded its equity funding with an additional $7 million infusion of investment capital, bringing the total funds invested to date to $29.5 million. Ahura Scientific, Inc. develops rugged, ultra-compact, field-enabled optical systems for the immediate identification and […]

Innovative Biosensors raises $6,250,000

Innovative Biosensors Inc. (IBI), a company developing rapid, ultra-sensitive tests to detect harmful pathogens, today announced that it has expanded its A round to $6.25 Million in total financing The Company’s technology is expected to have broad applications in food testing, animal health, and human health care, including drug discovery and development and […]

Battelle Ventures L.P. raises $4,000,000

Battelle Ventures, L.P., has led the $4-million Series A financing of BioVigilant Systems, Inc., the inventor of instantaneous microbial detection (IMDTM) technology and developer of IMD instruments that detect microbes and bio-agents in air and liquid.