Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Accumetrics Raises $16.5M

San Diego-based Accumetrics said today that it has raised $16.5M in new capital. The funding round came from Arnerich Massena, BBT Fund/Apothecary Capital, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and RiverVest Venture Partners. Accumetrics is developing a diagnostics system for measuring an individual's repsonse to multiple antiplatelet agents, which helps determine the risk of death, heart attack, or stroke for heart disease patients. The firm said the funding will fully finance the firm into 2011.