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Cambridge Devices Raises $2.5M in Seed Venture Capital Financing.


-- MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Professor Dr. Anthony Sinskey Joins Board of Directors --

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Cambridge Devices, a medical device company that develops real-time pathology solutions, today announced it has completed a $2.5M round of seed funding Seed funding is investing capital to begin a new project, so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period of development until it reaches either a state where it is able to continue funding itself, or has created something in value so that it is worthy of future rounds  from Kodiak Venture Partners.

Cambridge Devices was founded in 2004 by Suni suni: see antelope.  Chundru, MD and Sundar Subramaniam to address the complexity in tissue identification in procedures such as breast biopsies Breast Biopsy Definition

A breast biopsy is removal of breast tissue for examination by a pathologist. This can be accomplished surgically, or by withdrawing tissue through a needle.
 and skin-cancer excisions. The company will use the capital to accelerate its rapid growth, and enhance product development and strategic alliance efforts. Dave Furneaux of Kodiak Venture Partners will join Cambridge Devices' board of directors.

"We are excited to welcome Dave as a member of our board of directors, "said Dr. Suni Chundru, co-founder of Cambridge Devices. "His experience in guiding young companies to market leadership is invaluable, and we look forward to his assistance during this phase of growth."

Cambridge Devices addresses complexities in tissue identification with its Pathology Manager productaa unique web-service that captures, processes and analyzes information to provide physicians with pathology information in real-time.

"Cambridge Devices is poised for great success as a company; it has the management team, product roadmap and market opportunity required to become a leader," said Dave Furneaux, Founder and Managing General Partner of Kodiak Venture Partners. "What's more, its products mean faster, accurate answers for those dealing with cancer."

Real-time pathologic information aids doctors in various procedures, including guiding removal of tissue in biopsy procedures, delineating margins of cancer in simple excisional surgeries, and testing for any remaining cancerous tissue in the surgical field during open surgeries. Cambridge Devices is currently developing two devices and has a third in clinical trial.

"We are already benefiting from Kodiak's experience and are excited to leverage Dr. Sinskey's expertise as well," said Sundar Subramaniam, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and co-founder of Cambridge Devices. "It's access to seasoned veterans like Dave and Anthony than can make the difference between truly life changing medical devices, and ones that never make it to market."

Dr. Anthony Sinskey, a professor of microbiology microbiology: see biology.
microbiology

Scientific study of microorganisms, a diverse group of simple life-forms including protozoans, algae, molds, bacteria, and viruses.
 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business,  (MIT), is joining Cambridge Devices' board of directors. Professor Sinskey has participated in the founding and development of over 15 biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies
The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies.
 over the course of two decades, including Metabolix and Genzyme, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and Tepha, a medical device company.

About Cambridge Devices

Cambridge Devices is an early stage medical device company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation).
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States.
. It develops technologies that allow physicians to receive real-time feedback on tissue type, enabling more accurate and successful surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. . The company was founded in 2004 by Suni Chundru and Sundar Subramaniam.

About Kodiak Venture Partners

Kodiak Venture Partners is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments in emerging communications/wireless, semiconductor, software and Internet/new media companies. With a focus in the eastern regions of the U.S. and Canada, Kodiak Venture Partners builds relationships with entrepreneurs seeking to establish market leadership positions. Kodiak's investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a high-impact, hands-on approach to forming, operating, building and funding market leaders. For more information, visit www.kodiakvp.com.
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