Mercer Island, WA-based Liberty Dialysis, which operates more than 100 dialysis clinics around the U.S., has received a new investment from KRG Capital Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Ignition Partners, according to a press release on Friday. The funding amount was not disclosed. Liberty Dialysis was founded in 2002 and is led by CEO and co-founder Mark Caputo. The firm is backed in part by Seattle-area Ignition’s later-stage growth fund.
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Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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