Up until a year ago, OpGen was a tiny, Madison, WI-based company with only five employees and new genome technology that could be used to swiftly identify bacteria. Then a group of venture capitalists stepped in to contribute $23.6 million in financing and recruit a new CEO to run the fast-burgeoning biotech. And now it's grabbed $220,000 in state and local loans to move into new facilities in Gaithersburg, MD. Now with 55 employees on staff, the company is making plans to hire 100 more as it ramps up sales efforts.
CEO Noel Doheny told the Washington Post that the company offers "MapQuest for microbes." If you send the company a bug, they can turn around a map of its genome.
- read the report from the Washington Post