Tech Company Financing Transactions

Senscient Funding Round

Senscient closed a $5.6 million Series B funding round on 4/7/2008. Backers included Emerald Technology Ventures and Yellowstone Capital.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
4/7/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$5,600,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Emerald Technology Ventures (Lead Investor) (Charles Vaslet)

Yellowstone Capital (Lead Investor) (William Brewer)

Proceeds Purpose
The company will use the proceeds from this financing to expand all corporate and sales operations supporting its affordable, reliable, line-of-sight inflammable and toxic gas detector and process analytics market initiatives.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Electronics
Mailing Address
F1-2 Arena Business Centre Holyrood Close
Poole, BH17 7FP
UK
Email Address
Overview
Senscient, Ltd. was founded in January 2004 by Mr. Lee Richman, to develop, manufacture and market advanced gas detection products for industrial safety, environmental monitoring and process control / analysis applications.
Profile
Senscient LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Senscient Company Twitter Account
Company News
Senscient News
Facebook
Senscient on Facebook
YouTube
Senscient on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Rajat Barua
  Rajat Barua LinkedIn Profile  Rajat Barua Twitter Account  Rajat Barua News  Rajat Barua on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Lee Richman
  Lee Richman LinkedIn Profile  Lee Richman Twitter Account  Lee Richman News  Lee Richman on Facebook
VP - Operations
Simon Muir
  Simon Muir LinkedIn Profile  Simon Muir Twitter Account  Simon Muir News  Simon Muir on Facebook


 

 

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