Startup gets $8.9M for food poisoning test tech
US-based startup Ancera on Tuesday raised $8.9 million in Series A round of funding to develop 'Piper', a device to test food poisoning and prevent recalls. Launching next month, the device is a small printer-sized instrument which uses disposable cartridges about the size of a smartphone. It can detect and quantify sickness causing bacteria salmonella within one to eight hours. 