Lexington, MA-based RainDance Technologies, a maker of genomic research tools, said today it has closed a $37.5 million Series D financing round co-led by new investor Quaker BioVentures and existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures. Previous investors Alloy Ventures and Acadia Woods also participated in the round. RainDance, founded in 2004, has developed a system that can conduct thousands of DNA experiments per second, contained in ultra-tiny fluid droplets. The company is led by CEO Roopom Banerjee, who came on in early 2010.
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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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