Stem-cell startups merge (Dealscape

Stem-cell startups Pierian Inc. and iZumi Bio Inc. have merged to form iPierian Inc., the companies announced Wednesday. The combined company is expected to feature some of the nascent field's top scientists and is backed by blue-chip venture firms.

The money and brain trust will push to develop a recent stem-cell breakthrough into laboratory tools to find and test new drugs. The deal brings under-the-radar Pierian, backed by MPM Capital LP, together with iZumi, which launched in 2007 with $20 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Highland Capital Partners LLC.

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NOT A SUBSCRIBER? Stem-cell startups merge Posted on July 8, 2009 5:28 PM Stem-cell startups Pierian Inc. and iZumi Bio Inc. have merged to form iPierian Inc., the companies announced Wednesday. The combined company is expected to feature some of the nascent field's top scientists and is backed by blue-chip venture firms. The money and brain trust will push to develop a recent stem-cell breakthrough into laboratory tools to find and test new drugs. The deal brings under-the-radar Pierian, backed by MPM Capital LP, together with iZumi, which launched in 2007 with $20 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Highland Capital Partners LLC. This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all stories in full as well as second-to-none market intelligence. Dig deeper, with Pipeline. 190 articles related to stem-cells 99 in-depth transaction records for MPM Capital LP 96 company pages related to Biotechnology 25 in-depth reports of M&A deals in the R&D sector 10 years of news and analysis archives from the voice of The Deal Economy Most searched keywords Deutsche Bank Skadden Arps Pinnacle Foods Concho Resources Agrium Inc. Birds Eye Cantor Fitzgerald Credit Suisse Windstream Corp. Goldman Sachs		EXISTING USERS Username Password Forget your password? Missing a product?

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