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Allostera, a Univalor’s Spin-off, closes a $17M financing

Repost from www.univalor.ca

Allostera Pharma inc. closed $17M (CAD) Series A financing.

Allostera Pharma Inc. announced yesterday that “it has secured a Series A financing of $17 million.
Four venture funds participated: iNovia Capital, Genesys Capital, BDC Venture Capital with GO Capital, and Fonds Bio-Innovation s.e.c. The proceeds of the financing will be used for the development of Allosteramers™, a new class of drugs developed by Allostera scientists that are both highly specific for their targets and designed to be orally bioavailable. Additionally with these proceeds, Allostera plans to complete preclinical studies and begin human clinical testing of its lead Allosteramer™, APG2305, a novel drug candidate for treating autoimmune diseases like psoriasis that has demonstrated oral activity in animals. The specific terms of the Series A preferred share financing were not disclosed.”

To read the press release, please click here.

Congrats to Anne-Marie, Hélène and Marc for this great job!

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Vector Newsletter, April 2009

The April 09 edition of the Vector Newsletter is now online.

Vector April 2009

Featured in this edition:
- A virtual Reality System
- The TRIP technology
- New Designs of Robotic Hand
- Univalor’s technologies at BioTransfer

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Job Opportunity at Space Codesign Systems

Hello;

Space Codesign Systems, one of Univalor’s startup companies, is hiring a new Senior Software Developer.
If of interest, feel free to contact me. Cheers, Thomas

Job Offer:

Senior software developer in the field of System Design to join a startup in Montreal

Space Codesign Systems is a supplier of system level design software. Its first product, SpaceStudio is a system level development environment and tool suite that allows hardware/software architectural exploration and partitioning, design, validation, simulation, performance analysis and integration of mixed HW/SW embedded systems.

What we are looking for?

We are looking for a hands-on software developer with experience in the field of System Design.

Why join us?

We are a fast growing company where you will be able to directly influence the technology and product roadmap.

Qualifications:

· Senior engineer with over 7 years of EDA technology experience, ideally with hands on experience in designing EDA (ESL) tools

· Strong communication skills

· Experience designing and managing project plans, reporting progress and mitigating risks

· Excellent understanding and hands on experience with C/C++, VHDL, Verilog and SystemC

· Experience in Embedded Software development

· Hands on experience with products from one of the big tree (Mentor or Cadence or Synopsys) and FPGA tools (Xilinx or Altera).

· Hands on experience in with IC design flow, development and verification

· Entrepreneurial mindset with a history of startup experience

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