{"id":2977,"date":"2011-01-28T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2011-01-28T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:52:51","slug":"finance-friday-28-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Finance Friday: 28 January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142\" title=\"CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200.jpg\" alt=\"$100 bills in a circle (Photos8.com)\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200-150x149.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photos8.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are recent angel and venture finance transactions for science- and engineering-based companies reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/\">Xconomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biomedical\/Life Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meritage Pharma in San Diego, California. Specialty drug discovery and development. $2 million, equity.<\/p>\n<p>XDx in Brisbane, California. Molecular diagnostics. $12.5 million, debt (from GE Capital)<\/p>\n<p>Stromedix in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Specialty drug discovery and development. $2 million, debt.<\/p>\n<p>RainDance Technologies in Lexington, Massachusetts. Genomic research tools. $37.5 million, series D equity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Envia Systems in Newark, California. Cathodes for high-capacity lithium ion batteries. $17 million, series C equity.<\/p>\n<p>Fulcrum BioEnergy in Pleasanton, California. Technology for converting municipal solid waste into ethanol. $75 million, series C equity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Physical Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Myriant Technologies in Quincy, Massachusetts. Biochemicals. $60 million, equity financing (from PTT Chemical Public Company, Thailand)<\/p>\n<p>Xtalic in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Nanostructured alloy coatings for electronics components. $8 million, equity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engineering and Electronics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liquid Piston in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Advanced internal combustion engines. $5 million, series B equity.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid Robotics, in Sunnyvale, California. Maritime robotic vehicles. $18 million, equity.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2898\">Finance Friday: 21 January 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are recent angel and venture finance transactions for science- and engineering-based companies reported by Xconomy. Biomedical\/Life Sciences Meritage Pharma in San Diego, California. Specialty drug discovery and development. $2 million, equity. XDx in Brisbane, California. Molecular diagnostics. $12.5 million, debt (from GE Capital) Stromedix in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Specialty drug discovery and development. $2 million, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,23,24,19],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-debt","tag-equity","tag-investment","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}