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Sionex Corporation Announces Strategic Investment and Development
Agreement With In-Q-Tel
April 29, 2006
Sionex Corporation, a company focused on commercializing breakthrough
chemical and biological sensors and systems, today announced a strategic
investment and development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private venture
group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S.
Intelligence Community.
"This agreement with In-Q-Tel is a tremendous validation of Sionex's
technology and its significance for realizing the vast potential of
cutting-edge detection technology for chemicals and biological materials,"
said Wes Davis, President and CEO of Sionex Corporation. "In-Q-Tel's
investment will allow Sionex to continue leading the next wave of
the detection revolution."
This new investment capital will be used to support both commercial
market and technical development efforts. It will also enable Sionex
to provide additional support to its major customers in the government,
environmental, diagnostics and industrial sectors.
"Sionex has developed a revolutionary biological and chemical
sensing platform that is highly applicable to a wide range of commercial
and government markets," said Amit Yoran, President and CEO of
In-Q-Tel. "Sionex's unique capabilities have the potential to
bring about a paradigm shift in detection systems, enabling the sensing
of compounds on an unparalleled scale with unprecedented sensitivity
and selectivity."
About Sionex Corporation
Sionex Corporation is focused on commercializing breakthrough chemical
and biological sensor chips and systems based on its proprietary microDMx™
detection technology. Sionex maintains its worldwide headquarters
and laboratories in Bedford, Massachusetts. The Company is privately
held and was founded in 2001 with patented technology licensed exclusively
from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Additional information about
Sionex Corporation is available at www.sionex.com.
About In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel is a private, independent, not-for-profit venture group established
by the CIA. Launched in 1999, In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and
invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve
United States national security interests. Working from an evolving
strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community's critical
technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies,
researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that
provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, FBI, NGA, and the
larger Intelligence Community ("IC"). In-Q-Tel concentrates
on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure
and material sciences. To date, In-Q-Tel has engaged with more than
90 companies and delivered more than 120 technology solutions to the
IC. To learn more about In-Q-Tel, please visit www.in-q-tel.org.
microDMx™ and Protection by Detection™ are trademarks
of Sionex Corporation.
Forward-looking Statement
Some statements in this announcement constitute forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance
or achievements of Sionex Corporation to be materially different from
any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied
by such forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that
the forward-looking statements included in this announcement will
prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent
in the forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of
this information should not be regarded as a representation by the
Company or any other person that the objectives and plans of the Company
will be achieved.
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