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Nanotechnology
Company Closes Equity Financing, Solidifies Strategic
Additions to Management Team
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Carbon Nanoprobes
January 8, 2008
This week Carbon Nanoprobes Inc. (CN Probes), a
nanotechnology firm, announced that it had successfully
closed an A-round of investment capital as well as
solidified several strategic additions to its management
team.
Seattle, WA -- This week Carbon Nanoprobes Inc. (CN Probes),
a company specializing in nanotechnology and biotechnology,
announced that it had successfully closed an A-round of
investment capital as well as solidified several strategic
additions to its management team. |
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The funding will be used to complete
the development and launch of CN Probes' flagship product, a
carbon nanotube probe tip for the atomic force microscope
(AFM). The product is a revolutionary imaging platform that
will allow scientists and engineers in multiple fields, from
biotechnology to chip fabrication to "see more and know
more." As explained by the Company's CEO, 24-year-old Brian
Ruby, "We take pictures of tiny things. We're
nanophotographers and our pictures have value to scientists
in multiple fields."
Silicon pyramids are the standard used as probes for AFM
today. Although their production is well known and
relatively inexpensive, making them quite affordable to the
end user, some of their inherent properties currently limit
the applicability of AFM to a wider and more demanding range
of applications, as have been created by recent developments
especially in nanotechnology and biotechnology. Carbon
Nanotubes (CNTs) have been known since 1991, when
multi-walled tubes (MWNT) were first synthesized.
Single-walled tubes (SWNT) were isolated in the lab for the
first time in 1993. Since then research groups around the
world have been demonstrating many of the postulated highly
favorable mechanical, electronic, thermal and structural
properties especially of the SWNTs.
Key challenges to be addressed in the mass-production of CNT
probe tips include reliably controlling tube yield, length,
alignment and diameter. CN Probes has a continually growing
IP portfolio designed with these challenges in mind.
Providing an improved and reliable AFM probe technology as
described above would meet the needs of a number of new
evolving markets. CN Probes expects a release of its
signature products some time in 2008.
Concurrent with the closing of financing, CN Probes also
enhanced its management team and board of directors. Among
whom are Brian Morton, a 10-year startup veteran as Chief
Marketing Officer and 3 new directors, all of whom have had
previous management and/or directorate experience at public
companies. Morton commented, "I am a senior management
executive with 14 years of progressive experience in the
Medical Device Industries…when deciding on my next career
move, I wanted to choose an organization that had superior
technology, a product that would excel in the market place,
and talented executive leadership with a sold business
model…after meeting with Brian, I quickly realized that CN
Probes possesses all of those qualities and more."
About Carbon
Nanoprobes
CN Probes was founded in 2003 and is committed to the mass
fabrication of nanostructured AFM consumables. The
nanotechnology company is based on a technology platform
invented by CN Probes' CEO and Founder, providing many
innovations to the biotechnology field.
For more information on the company's nanotechnology and
biotechnology innovations, visit www.cnprobes.com. |
