AyoxxA Biosystems Closes Series A Financing Round

2.6 million Euro financing will accelerate development of cutting-edge technology for protein analysis

24-Sep-2012 - Germany

AyoxxA Biosystems announced it has closed a 2.6 million Euro Series A financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners Venture Capital and included NRW.BANK, HTGF – High-Tech-Gründerfonds, and private investors, Rainer Christine and Dr. Gregor Siebenkotten, both formerly executive board members and co-founders of amaxa biosystems.

The funds raised will be used to drive the further development of AyoxxA’s proprietary platform technology and the scale-up of production of its novel bead-based biochips as the company moves towards commercialization.

AyoxxA’s technology is aimed at transforming the throughput and accuracy of protein analysis to deliver the analytical power now seen only for DNA arrays. The platform is based around proprietary In-situ Encoded Bead-based Arrays (IEBA) which allow the simultaneous measurement of multiple proteins from minute samples.

Unlike current bead-based microarrays, AyoxxA’s IEBA need no physical label to allow multiplex analysis and thus hugely reduce the complexity of downstream analysis while increasing the number of individual proteins that can be analysed at the same time. The arrays are designed to be readily adaptable to standard high throughput screening systems and offer the potential of tens of thousands of ELISA assays in a single well of a biochip.

Dr. Andreas Schmidt, CEO of AyoxxA, said: “This fundraising provides Ayoxxa with the resources to significantly accelerate the scale-up of production of our unique bead-based biochips and, through the expansion of our base in Cologne, prepare to bring our technology to market. We believe our technology can revolutionise protein analysis and with our growing presence in Europe combined with our continued access to the world-class science in Singapore we are uniquely positioned to deliver on that promise.”

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