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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3555861"]Sounds surprising to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Accumetrics has burned already 68 Mn USD since 2004, which is a LOT of money for a diagnostics company. Had already 5 financial rounds, few real customers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Main patent runs out in 2017. I wonder who would want to burn more money on this technology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Accumetrics started in 1996, collected 35 Mn USD VC till 2001, was sold for 14 Mn USD to Radiometer Copenhagen, was closed 1 year later, restarted in 2003, since then again 68 Mn USD VC collected. Still burning approximately 1 Mn USD per month. Not exactly a success story. </p><p><br /></p><p>Why should a technology which has burned money for more than 14 years in a row suddenly get profitable? </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/10/06/san-diego%E2%80%99s-accumetrics-raises-16-5m-in-fifth-round-of-venture-funding/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/10/06/san-diego%E2%80%99s-accumetrics-raises-16-5m-in-fifth-round-of-venture-funding/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/10/06/san-diego’s-accumetrics-raises-16-5m-in-fifth-round-of-venture-funding/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HXI/is_2002_Nov_19/ai_n25057390/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HXI/is_2002_Nov_19/ai_n25057390/" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HXI/is_2002_Nov_19/ai_n25057390/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/accumetrics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/accumetrics" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/accumetrics</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-5922551/agglutrimetric-platelet-binding-assays-in-blood" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-5922551/agglutrimetric-platelet-binding-assays-in-blood" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-5922551/agglutrimetric-platelet-binding-assays-in-blood</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3555861"]Sounds surprising to me. Accumetrics has burned already 68 Mn USD since 2004, which is a LOT of money for a diagnostics company. Had already 5 financial rounds, few real customers. Main patent runs out in 2017. I wonder who would want to burn more money on this technology. Accumetrics started in 1996, collected 35 Mn USD VC till 2001, was sold for 14 Mn USD to Radiometer Copenhagen, was closed 1 year later, restarted in 2003, since then again 68 Mn USD VC collected. Still burning approximately 1 Mn USD per month. Not exactly a success story. Why should a technology which has burned money for more than 14 years in a row suddenly get profitable? [url]http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/10/06/san-diego%E2%80%99s-accumetrics-raises-16-5m-in-fifth-round-of-venture-funding/[/url] [url]http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HXI/is_2002_Nov_19/ai_n25057390/[/url] [url]http://www.crunchbase.com/company/accumetrics[/url] [url]http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-5922551/agglutrimetric-platelet-binding-assays-in-blood[/url][/QUOTE]
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