Posts Tagged: CTI Life Sciences Fund L.P.
Xagenic announces $15 million financing round with Series B investors
TORONTO (July 9, 2015) — Xagenic, a molecular diagnostics company developing the lab-free Xagenic X1™ platform for point-of-care use, today announced that it has raised $15 million (CAD). Each of the company's Series B investors has participated in this financing, including Domain Associates, CTI Life Sciences, BDC Capital and the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation.
PE Hub, Cantech Letter, Genome Web, Fierce Medical Devices and the Wall Street Journal's Venture Capital Dispatch blog covered this announcement.
In June, Xagenic also announced it has acquired ...
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Xagenic announces second closing of $25.5M Series B financing
TORONTO, July 14, 2014 - Xagenic Inc., a molecular diagnostics company developing the first lab-free molecular diagnostic platform with a 20 minute time-to-result, has announced a second closing of its recently announced Series B financing, bringing the total raised in this round to $25.5 million.
In conjunction with this closing, new investor BDC Capital joined as an investor and Dion Madsen, senior managing partner at BDC Capital, will join Xagenic's Board of Directors.
From our archives: MaRS Innovation's lead start-up completes $20 million ...
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Xagenic founder Shana Kelley’s MRI blog post on bringing research to market
U of T professor shares tips to her team's commercialization success
When it comes to bringing research from the lab to the market, the University of Toronto’s Dr. Shana Kelley knows firsthand what it takes. She’s co-founder of Xagenic, a MaRS Innovation and U of T start-up company that’s developed the first lab-free molecular diagnostic platform with a 20-minute time-to-result based on her research with fellow U of T colleague Professor Edward Sargent.
Xagenic recently announced a Series B financing announcement following their successful $10 million ...
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MaRS Innovation’s 2013 Top 10 List
2013 was an exceptional year for MaRS Innovation. Here are the top 10 news stories from our commercialization portfolio.
1. MaRS Innovation secures a $15 million CECR funding extension
In January, MaRS Innovation was one of four Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research to be successfully extended by the Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada.
This achievement reflects and recognizes the quality of the startups and licensable technologies within the MaRS Innovation portfolio, as well as the rigour of its business model and the achievements of its ...
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FedDev Ontario awards Xagenic Inc. $990,000 through Investing in Business Innovation initiative
TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2013 — Xagenic Inc., a privately-held molecular diagnostics company, today announced that it will receive up to $990,000 in funding from the Government of Canada to support design and development of the first lab-free molecular diagnostic platform with a 20-minute time to result.
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), made the announcement in the keynote speech at the Conference Board of Canada's Business Innovation Summit 2013 ...
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BioCentury Features Xagenic’s PCR-Based Infection-Diagnosis Technology
Xagenic, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, was featured in the most recent issue of BioCentury.
Here's an excerpt (the article only available to BioCentury subscribers):
PCR-based diagnosis of infections can delay treatment decisions by days or hours because the method relies on technical expertise and equipment not available in most point-of-care settings. Xagenic Inc.'s chip-based arrays use a non-PCR, electrochemical approach to diagnose bacterial infections at the point of care in 20 minutes with PCR-like accuracy.
Xagenic's core technology is a silicon chip containing ...
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MaRS Innovation’s Lead Start-Up Completes $20 Million Series B
Xagenic’s financing round to test platform and first diagnostic assay, continue product development and begin FDA submission
Toronto, ON (December 2, 2013) — MaRS Innovation’s first start-up company, Xagenic Inc., is developing the first lab-free molecular diagnostic platform with a 20-minute time-to-result based on University of Toronto research by Professors Shana Kelley and Edward Sargent.
Today, Xagenic announced it has successfully closed a Series B financing round totaling $20 million. New investor Domain Associates, LLC, led the round, joined by existing investors who ...
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Xagenic Raises $10 million in Series A Financing
TORONTO (January 30, 2012) – Xagenic Inc., a start-up company created by Dr. Shana Kelley, in partnership with MaRS Innovation, today reached a significant milestone by successfully completing series A financing totaling $10 million.
The financing comes from sources from the private and public sector including CTI Life Sciences Fund L.P., Qiagen N.V. and the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation through its Emerging Technologies Fund. (more…)
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