From wine to drugs: NZ tech startup raises €1.75m

From wine to drugs: NZ tech startup raises €1.75m
Marama Labs has developed a ground-breaking spectrometer. (Image: Marama Labs)
Greg Hurrell
A New Zealand-Ireland deep tech company will use new seed funding worth €1.75 million (NZ$3.1m) to diversify from the wine industry into the life-sciences market.It’s a move that one backer believes will greatly speed up the development of life-saving vaccines.Marama Labs is a spin-out company based on research at the Raman Laboratory at Victoria University of Wellington. Chief executive Brendan Darby co-founded it with Matthias Meyer and Eric Le Ru.The company’s main product is its patented CloudSpec spectroscopy instrume...

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