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Funding Ancera

UK-based startup, Ancera Inc. develops a unique technology that helps food producers to detect contaminants present in the food, if any. For it, recently, Ancera raises funds of $8.9 million in Series A round of funding from Glass Capital Management, a Florida-based family fund; Metabiota, corporate strategic backers Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) and other undisclosed investors. With the new funds, Ancera’s total capital raised till now comes to $12.3 million. To your note, PSSI and Metabiota are reputed companies in the food safety market. Arjun Ganesan is the CEO and founder of Ancera.

Ancera to the Rescue!

Some common contaminants are salmonella, e.coli, Listeria etc. that causes extreme sickness. Ancera has developed a well-advanced hardware product, Piper that looks like a small printer, which uses disposable cartridges about the size of a smartphone. It will be out in the market by next month. This is world’s first instrument to measure food contaminants.  The technology helps to minimize the food wastage and prevent the spread of food-borne diseases. Even if you are not trained in biology, you can easily check the contaminants in poultry and other foods at different checkpoints in their supply chain. Ancera’s analytics software delivers reports on the status of raw ingredients.

The most common testing method is to send the sample to the lab. Typically, the testing takes 30-50 hours (approx. 5 days). With Ancera, your quality test is done in no time.

Takeaways:

• UK-based startup, Ancera Inc. develops a unique technology that helps food producers to detect contaminants present in the food, if any.
• Recently, Ancera raises funds of $8.9 million in Series A round of funding from Glass Capital Management, a Florida-based family fund; Metabiota, corporate strategic backers Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) and other undisclosed investors.
• With the new funds, Ancera’s total capital raised till now comes to $12.3 million.