21Jul
21Jul
The Wearables Giving Computer Vision to the Blind
Other wearables use light and magnification to assist people with limited vision. A device called eSight, which users wear like a VR headset, uses a high-resolution camera to magnify images and project them onto the OLED screen in front of the user’s eyes. Read more >>
20Jul
Chronix Biomedical $8.00 million Fundraising. John DiPietro Filed Jul 18 SEC Filing
Chronix Biomedical Inc, Corporation just had published form D about $8.00 million equity financing. This is a new filing. Chronix Biomedical was able to sell $3.31 million so far. That is 41.34 % of the fundraising. The total financing amount was $8.00 million. This form was filed on 2017-07-18. The reason for the financing was: unspecified. The fundraising still has about $4.69 million more and is not closed yet. We have to wait more to see if the offering will...
19Jul
Drug for concussion, stroke found by UT scientist moves closer to human trials
Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals, the company Lechleiter founded with William Korinek of Boston, completed Monday its first round of financing that raised roughly $2.4 million in fresh capital. The fledgling company had $670,000 in seed funding from the federal government since 2014. Lechleiter hopes the drug, which is at least 7 years away from market, could be easily administered by any football coach or paramedic to mitigate the effects of concussions or strokes. Read more >>
19Jul
Gates is Still Gunning for HIV. Here’s the Latest
Gates has been backing HIV self-testing and rapid diagnostics projects since around 2010, when it invested $600,000 in Daktari Diagnostics, a company focused on “delivering critical diagnostic test results.” In 2015, Daktari rolled out its portable point-of-care device that measures CD4 cell counts. CD4s are white blood cells that fight infection and are defined as “antigen[s] found on helper T cells.” The following year, in 2011, Gates awarded PATH a $1.1 million grant to “develop a target product profile for...
19Jul
Nutter Recognized as Leader in Client Relationships in BTI Industry Power Rankings 2017
Nutter has been recognized by clients as one of 17 law firms with the strongest client relationships in the high tech industry in BTI Consulting’s BTI Industry Power Rankings 2017. The law firms with the strongest relationships—who are both core and recommended first in the high tech industry—were named by clients in BTI Industry Power Rankings 2017. Read more >>
18Jul
Legally Blind Man Bikes Across Manitoba for Electronic Glasses
Over Canada Day a Morden man began a bike ride across Manitoba. Evan Froese began the trip starting West of Virden towards West Hawk Lake to raise funds for visual aids called ESight glasses. Read more >>
17Jul
5 minutes with… Darcy Prather, President of Kalion
Our world demands more materials and polymers to respect the environment and transfer the billions spent on our oil based industries to renewable sources. The challenge arises when striking the balance between these desires and the practicalities of paying more for renewable substitutes. This means that more chemical companies are refining their production processes and the strategies they use to become more competitive on price. Kalion based in Massachusetts is using glucaric acid to provide the low cost molecule in...
14Jul
KnipBio Announces Successful Completion of BioProcessing Feed Scale-Up Program
KnipBio Inc. announces the successful completion of the latest phase in its plan to produce KnipBio Meal, a premium aquaculture feed ingredient from low-cost, readily available feedstocks. The development was done in conjunction with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). Read more >>
13Jul