Financings in Brief: Gamera Bioscience
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Gamera Bioscience: Private placement financing of $4.5 mil. is completed with venture syndicate consisting of Spray Venture Fund, Advent International and Bessemer Venture Partners. Funding will go towards development of the firm's LabCD System platform technology. The system, which incorporates "a modified CD player and disposable compact discs" and is designed to perform "sophisticated laboratory tests at the point-of-care," is expected to be "the first portable, automated device able to perform the full spectrum of analytical tests, including cell counting, DNA analysis, immunoassays and clinical chemistries," Gamera states...