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DDG accepted into STARTUP NY

43North today shared exciting updates on the winning companies from its 2014 and 2015 competitions. The $5 million startup competition attracts entrepreneurs from around the world to compete for prizes that turn startups with high growth potential into funded enterprises in the Western New York region... Additionally, the following 43North winners have been accepted to the START-UP NY program: DDG, Painless1099, Plum, Qoints, and Voiceitt.

Admetsys is accepted into the Second TiE ScaleUp Cohort

This year’s TiE ScaleUp Cohort includes the following companies, several of them being alums of MassChallenge, TechStars, Harvard i-Lab and Learn Launch: Admetsys, Advanced Continuing Education Association, Avrio, Blackburn Energy, Cintell, Entromy, HelloToken, KnipBio, Nested Bean, Neumitra, Renew Energy Partners, Rifiniti, Shearwater and Wizdy.

uBiome Awards Two Microbiome Researchers $100,000

UBiome Doubles Research Grant to Award Two Microbiome Researchers up to $100,000 Each. Leading microbial genomics company uBiome today announces the surprise joint winners of its recent public-voted uBiome Microbiome Research Grant Competition, by awarding up to $100,000 of uBiome testing kits and full laboratory analysis to the two researchers who tied for first place.

Rock West Medical Raised $1.25M

The funding came from a single undisclosed investor. Rock West Medical Devices, a member of Advamed's Medtech Innovator, hopes to raise another $1.75 million from the equity round, according to an SEC filing. It will use the funds to support the development of a MoPill prototype and to see it through preclinical and clinical trials and a 510(k) bid, according to Medtech Innovator.