Google-ITA Acquisition Advances, Nano Terra Buys Surface Logix, Blueprint Medicines Gets $40M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Stata Venture Partners. It also secured a line of working capital from Silicon Valley Bank.

—Nano Terra, a Brighton, MA-based surface engineering and nanotechnology company, said it has acquired Brighton-based drug developer Surface Logix for an undisclosed sum. Both companies were founded by Harvard University chemist George Whitesides.

—A pair of Waltham-based security software makers nabbed funding. Bit9, a maker of endpoint security products, raised $12.5 million in a deal led by its founding investor Atlas Venture. The financing also came from return backers Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and .406 Ventures, and new investor Paul Capital. Meanwhile, enterprise security software maker Verdasys snapped up $15 million from the GE Pension Trust, advised by GE Asset Management.

—Groom Energy, a Salem, MA-based firm providing corporate energy sustainability and assessment services, raised $2.6 million in an angel capital round led by Eyk Van Otterloo, founder of the investment management firm GMO.

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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.