$1.8M for PointCare Technologies

PointCare Technologies, a Marlborough, MA-based provider of diagnostics technology designed for populations with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, has raised $1.8 million of a planned $3.5 million equity round of funding, an SEC filing reveals. Founded in 2002, PointCare makes lower-cost, multi-purpose medical devices that require less training to use than traditional technologies, according to the company’s website.

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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.