PerkinElmer Acquires Caliper for $600M, VideoIQ Nabs $7.5M, MC10 Snags $2.5M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

the deal was announced. The transaction is expected to close sometime in the fourth quarter of this year.

Take the Interview, of Cambridge, raised $775,000 in seed funding from angel investors, and partners and limited partners of the startup incubator program it participated in this summer, DreamIt Ventures. The company is developing technology for video-based job recruiting and marketing.

—Bedford, MA-based video surveillance technology developer VideoIQ inked a $7.5 million Series C investment from Atlas Venture, Cisco, Matrix Partners and Tenaya Capital, to put toward growth and product development.

—Tensha Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based epigenetic drug developer, raised $15 million in a Series A financing from HealthCare Ventures.

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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.