Flagship & Portfolio Company News - 2010

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09/01/2010
Mascoma Acquires SunOpta BioProcess Inc.

08/24/2010
Ensemble Therapeutics Presents Data at American Chemical Society National Meeting

08/18/2010
Flagship's David Berry Quoted in article in Technology Review: Death Knell for Some Clean Tech Companies

08/16/2010
Selecta Biosciences Appoints Werner Cautreels, Ph.D., as Company's First CEO

08/16/2010
Selecta Biosciences Receives $3 Million from NIH/NIDA to Develop Nicotine Vaccine for Smoking Cessation

08/03/2010
PerkinElmer to Acquire VisEn Medical, Inc.

07/29/2010
LS9, Inc. Makes Major Scientific Breakthrough in Converting Sugar to Alkanes

07/29/2010
Helicos Announces Nature Publication on First Evidence of RNA Copying Mechanisms in Human Cells

07/29/2010
Everyday Solutions, Inc. Appoints Tom Liebermann Executive Chairman Role

07/26/2010
Flagship's Jim Matheson is Entrepreneur in Residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

07/22/2010
Novomer Selected for DOE Grant as Energy Secretary Chu Announces Six Projects to Convert Captured CO2 Emissions from Industrial Sources into Useful Products

07/19/2010
TARIS Appoints Sarma Duddu as President and CEO

07/20/2010
Joule Names John Ward Senior Vice President of Production

07/12/2010
Accuri Cytometers Completes $6 Million Series E Financing

07/08/2010
Flagship’s David Berry quoted in eBioNews in an article titled, “A New Bloom for Algae.”

06/29/2010
BIND Biosciences Secures $12.4 Million Financing

06/29/2010
BIND Biosciences Appoints Ed Schnipper, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer

06/25/2010
Gilead Sciences to Acquire CGI Pharmaceuticals for up to $120 Million

06/25/2010
Helicos BioSciences Announces Launch of Diagnostics Business

06/22/2010
Ensemble Evolves Name to Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation

06/22/2010
Mr. Afeyan Goes to Washington

06/21/2010
LS9 Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award

06/21/2010
Fontinalis Partners Announces Investment in Everyday Solutions the Leading Provider of GPS-Driven School Transportation Information Management Systems

06/15/2010
LS9, Creator of Synthetic Microbes to Make Biofuel, Edges Toward Moment of Truth

06/03/2010
Joule Elects Ruben Vardanian to Board of Directors

06/01/2010
Genstruct Appoints David de Graaf as Chief Scientific Officer

05/26/2010
Alvine Pharmaceuticals Announces Equity Investment by Abbott Biotech Ventures Inc.

05/25/2010
T2 Biosystems Raises $15 Million in Series C Financing

05/23/2010
Groundbreaking Study Published in Nature Biotechnology Demonstrates Sensitivity of Single Molecule Test for Detection of Prostate Cancer

05/20/2010
Two of Flagship’s Portfolio Company CEOs Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award Finalist

05/20/2010
Seventh Sense, Rox Anderson and Bob Langer Startup, Seeks to Collect Blood With No Pain -- Article by Ruam McBride on Xconomy.com

05/18/2010
Flagship Ventures invites scientists to shack up for the summer in Kendall Square

05/12/2010
David Berry of Flagship Ventures on Funding Advice, Investment Themes, Trends in Biofuels -- Interview on Xconomy.com

05/06/2010
Accuri Announces Sale of 500th C6 Flow Cytometer® System and Award Of Two Free Units for Innovative Flow Cytometry Applications

05/05/2010
Two Flagship Companies -- Advanced Electron Beams and Oasys -- receive DOE Awards in the Industrial Energy Efficiency Grand Challenge

04/29/2010
AVEO Reports First Quarter 2010 Financial Results

04/28/2010
Press Coverage of Joule Unlimited's $30M Financing

04/28/2010
Ze-gen Welcomes David Robertson As Vice President of Technology

04/27/2010
Joule Closes $30M Funding Round

04/21/2010
Solar Fuel Pioneered by Joule Named among World’s 10 Most Important Emerging Technologies

04/20/2010
Avedro Receives the European Union’s CE Mark for its Vedera™ Ophthalmic Device

04/15/2010
Celgene Corporation and Agios Pharmaceuticals Announce Global Strategic Collaboration to Advance Unique Science of Cancer Metabolism

04/14/2010
AVEO Pharmaceuticals Receives Milestone Payment from Biogen Idec under Licensing Agreement for ErbB3 Antibody Program

04/13/2010
Wall Street Journal Interview with Bob Weinberg, Co-founder of Flagship Ventures company Theracrine, on his Work in Understanding Cancer

04/13/2010
LS9’s UltraClean Diesel™ Receives EPA Registration

04/07/2010
Pervasis Announces Start of Second Clinical Program, Targeting Peripheral Arterial Disease

04/06/2010
Noubar Afeyan to Join Anatoly Chubais of RUSNANO in MIT Sloan Event

04/05/2010
Selecta Biosciences, Inc. Closes $15 Million Series C Financing

03/25/2010
VisEn Launches New Gastrosense™ 750 Fluorescence Imaging Agent

03/18/2010
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Completes Initial Public Offering

03/11/2010
Ze-gen Named Top 50 Greentech Startup

03/11/2010
VisEn Launches New VivoTag® 680 XL Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Label

03/10/2010
Acceleron Recognized by The Wall Street Journal as One of the Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies in the United States

03/04/2010
TransMedics, Inc. Secures $36 Million Round of Financing Lead by Foundation Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

03/02/2010
Flagship highlighted in WSJ blog Venture Capital Dispatch for having three companies in MIT Technology Review TR50 Most Innovative Companies list

03/02/2010
Joule Named Among 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World

02/23/2010
MIT's Technology Review Unveils 2010 TR50 List of the World's Most Innovative Companies

02/23/2010
AVEO Pharma Sets IPO Terms

02/17/2010
Eleven Biotherapeutics Completes $35 Million Series A Funding to Advance Pipeline of Innovative Protein-Based Therapeutics

02/03/2010
LS9 Purchases Florida Site to Manufacture Renewable Petroleum

02/01/2010
Pervasis Therapeutics Receives FDA Clearance for Pivotal Phase 3 Trial of Vascugel®

01/29/2010
BG Medicine Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

01/28/2010
VisEn Acquires Key Fluorescence Agent Intellectual Property Portfolio and Technology Platforms from Bayer Schering Pharma

01/27/2010
Joule Names Troy Campione Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

01/27/2010
BG Medicine Announces Receipt of CE Mark for its Galectin-3 Blood Test 01/27/2010

01/27/2010
LS9, Inc., U.C Berkeley, and JBEI Make Major Breakthrough in Cellulosic Fuels Production

01/21/2010
DSM and Novomer to Develop First CO2-based Resin for Coatings

01/20/2010
Joule Biotechnologies Secures Pilot Site for Renewable Solar Fuel

01/19/2010
Helicos BioSciences Announces the Sale of a Helicos® Genetic Analysis System to the Turku Centre for Biotechnology

01/19/2010
VisEn Launches New Cat B 680 FAST™ Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Agent

01/14/2010
BIND Biosciences, Inc. Closes $11M Series C Financing Round

01/11/2010
BIND Biosciences Appoints Scott Minick as President and CEO

01/08/2010
Mascoma Appoints William J. Brady as Chief Executive Officer

01/06/2010
Ensemble Discovery Initiates Collaboration with Pfizer to Develop Novel Drugs against Protein-Protein Interaction Targets

01/06/2010
T2 BioSystems Appoints Ken Toso Vice President, Product Development






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