Kinvey, Zink, ImmusanT, and More of this Week’s Boston Dealmakers

IT and life sciences companies around New England shared the deals news pool this week.

—Zink pinned down $35 million in a Series B round led by Genii Capital. The Bedford, MA-based company, whose name stands for “zero ink,” is developing technology for inkless printers that can connect to devices like digital cameras. Zink also announced that it had named two of its board members, Mary Jeffries and Ira Parker (both Polaroid veterans), as co-CEOs.

—Cambridge, MA-based Kinvey inked a partnership with Seattle-based Urban Airship, which powers push notifications for mobile apps. Kinvey, a 2011 TechStars Boston graduate, will provide the data back-end services for developers using Urban Airship’s notifications. Financial terms of the partnership weren’t disclosed.

—LifeImage, a Newton, MA-based developer of technology for sharing medical images over the Internet cloud, took in $8 million in equity financing from 13 investors, an SEC filing showed. The company’s previous investors include Galen Partners, Cardinal Partners, Long River Ventures, Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, and Partners Innovation Fund.

—Vatera Healthcare Partners of New York put $20 million in Series A money into Cambridge-based ImmusanT a new biotech targeting celiac disease, a condition that renders gluten toxic in the body. The company is developing a vaccine that would make celiac disease patients tolerant to the toxic effects of gluten, and is also working on a test for diagnosing and monitoring the medical condition.

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.