Efficas Inc., a Boulder- based health-science and technology-development company, announced it has secured $14.5 million in Series B financing. LSP BioVentures Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., led the round along with Unilever Technology Ventures, Burrill and Co., Great Spirit Ventures, JP Morgan Bay Area Equity Fund and Prolog Ventures.
EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) will give $2 million to the Colorado School of Mines to support construction of Marquez Hall, the new petroleum-engineering building planned at the school. The gift will be in annual payments of $400,000 over the next five years.
Fluensee Inc. of Douglas County has selected Boulder- based Percept Technology Labs to be the testing partner for its RFID-enabled asset- management systems.
Myogen Inc., a Westminster-based biopharmaceutical company, announced that an abstract on hypertension has been selected for presentation at the International Society of Hypertension this week in Fukuoka, Japan.
Tendril, a Boulder-based provider of network operations platform software for wireless sensor and control networks, is cooperating with Atmel Corp. to accelerate and simplify customer deployments of WSCN applications.
International Royalty Corp. of Denver reported that the American Stock Exchange has approved IRC’s application for listing its common shares on or about Friday under the trading symbol “ROY.”
Key Equipment Finance, a Superior-based equipment-
leasing company, announced a $10,000 contribution to the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business Office of Diversity Affairs. The contribution is in addition to a $15,000 contribution made by the Key Foundation.
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens announced that four Colorado airports have been awarded state aviation grants. Front Range Airport Authority received $249,158 for improvements at Front Range Airport; Jefferson County, $194,737 for Jefferson County Airport; Arapahoe County Airport Authority, $75,000 for Centennial Airport; and the Town of Erie, $17,895 for improvements at Erie Municipal Airport.
Merlin International, a Denver-based federal information-technology solutions provider, announced it was ranked No.1 on Washington Technology’s 2006 list of 50 fastest-growing federal IT contractors.
