5AM Gathers $200M Fund, Advanced Cell Technology Advances with $2.8 Million, Gloucester Picked up for $640M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

an SEC filing. Investors in the deal weren’t specified, but previous backers of the startup include Polaris Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures, and Lux Capital.

—Boston-based EnerNOC (NASDAQ:[[ticker:ENOC]]) acquired California-based Cogent Energy for an undisclosed sum.

—Newton, MA-based LifeImage, whose technology allows for medical images to be securely shared online, revealed to Ryan that it expects to secure more than $2.1 million in its second round of financing next week. New investors in the round will include Long River Ventures; previous investors Partners Innovation Fund, Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, and others will participate as well.

MC10 of Waltham indicated in a regulatory filing that it has raised $5.7 million in a new round of financing, $1.7 million of which is equity from converted bridge loans. The startup is developing “stretchable silicon” technology developed at the University of Illinois.

—Cambridge-based Biogen Idec’s (NASDAQ:[[ticker:BIIB]]) “best and final” offer for Redwood City, CA-based Facet Biotech (NASDAQ:[[ticker:FACT]]) was unanimously rejected by Facet’s board.

Fina Technologies of Cambridge raised $4.5 million in a Series A round of venture capital led by Reed Elsevier Ventures and joined by Excel Venture Management. A spinout of Cambridge-based Gene Network Sciences, Fina provides drug companies and others with software for making detailed computer models of biological systems.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.