San Carlos, CA-based Verinata Health said today it has raised $46.5 million in a Series C venture financing, with another $2 million expected to complete the round on Aug. 31. Existing investors Mohr Davidow Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Alloy Ventures led the financing. Verinata is developing tests which examine maternal blood samples for early detection of chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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