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Venture Capital News: Biodesix Secures $8.8M Series D

2013-04-12
BOULDER, CO, Molecular diagnostics company closed on $8.8 million in a follow-on sale of its Series D preferred shares.
Biodesix, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company advancing the development of innovative products for personalizing medicine, announced today that the company closed on $8.8 million in a follow-on sale of its Series D preferred shares. All funds were provided by existing shareholders of the company. The investment will be used for ongoing development of the company's technology platform and expansion of sales and marketing efforts to support Biodesix' first product, VeriStrat®. VeriStrat is a serum protein test that helps physicians guide therapy for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

About Biodesix

Biodesix is a molecular diagnostics company advancing the development of innovative products for personalizing medicine. The company provides physicians with diagnostic tests for earlier disease detection, more accurate diagnosis, disease monitoring and better therapeutic guidance, which may lead to improved patient outcomes. Biodesix discovers, develops and commercializes multivariate protein diagnostics based on their proprietary mass spectrometry-based discovery platform. VeriStrat, a multivariate serum protein test, is Biodesix' first product developed with this technology. The commercially available test provides oncologists with information to help them select between erlotinib and single-agent chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer patients. Tests are processed in Biodesix' CLIA-certified laboratory and results are reported in less than 72 hours. In addition to developing novel diagnostics independently, the company also partners with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to develop companion diagnostics to improve utility of therapeutic agents. For more information on VeriStrat, please visit www.VeriStratSupport.com. For more information about Biodesix, please visit www.Biodesix.com.
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