Allergy testing and treatment company Nectar raised $16.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Harmony Partners, bringing its total equity raise to more than $24 million.
The company's founding partners, Juxtapose and Obvious Ventures, also participated in the round — Obvious Ventures co-built Nectar with the company's current CEO and former AncestryDNA executive Kenneth Chahine.
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Ancestry.com, one of the biggest sites for genealogy in the world, is getting into health. The company officially launched a new website, AncestryHealth.com, in beta today and announced the hire of a Chief Health Officer, Dr. Cathy A. Petti, who has previously held executive roles at HealthSpring Global, TriCore Reference Laboratories, and Novartis.
“Ancestry fundamentally believes family history...
