Foundation Medicine Grabs $10M

Foundation Medicine, a Cambridge, MA-based cancer diagnostics startup, has raised $10 million of a targeted $20.5 million round of equity funding, from one investor, and SEC filing reveals. Last year Foundation announced it had raised the first part of a $25 million Series A financing led by Third Rock Ventures. Earlier this year the startup added former Clarient president Michael Pellini as its new CEO and announced deals with Celgene and Novartis.

Author: Erin Kutz

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.