CareCulture Health Partners

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

Persephone Biosciences | July 20, 2022

Persephone Biosciences Inc., a synthetic biology company reimagining patient and infant health through the development of microbiome-based medicines, today announced that it has closed a $15 million seed financing round. The round was co-led by First Bight Ventures and Propel Bio Partners, and included investments from Y Combinator, Fifty Years, Susa Ventures, American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Fund, Pioneer Fund, and ZhenFund among others. “Thi...

RESEARCH

Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research | January 14, 2022

The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research announces a newly funded five-year cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology headed by the Co-Directors of IBBR, Dr. David J. Weber (PI) and Dr. John Marino This award provides more than $3.3 million each year to support groundbreaking research, including technology and standards development that will impact vaccine and therapeutic discovery and development, and to improve access to life-saving treatments...

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

O2 Investment Partners ( | January 24, 2022

O2 Investment Partners announced that it has partnered with Modular Devices, Inc. and its President & CEO, Greg Mink, to support the Company’s continued growth. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1987, Modular Devices, Inc. is a leading provider of mobile and modular medical imaging equipment labs and cleanroom solutions throughout the United States. MDI’s medical imaging solutions offer various imaging modalities through short- and long-term leases t...

MEDTECH, INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

MaxCyte | January 04, 2023

MaxCyte, a leading commercial cell-engineering company, announced the signing of a strategic platform license (SPL) with Catamaran Bio, a biotechnology enterprise creating off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cell therapeutics to cure a wide range of cancers. While Catamaran acquires non-exclusive clinical and commercial rights to use MaxCyte's Flow Electroporation® technology and ExPERT™ platform per the terms of the agreement, in exchange, MaxCyte will ...