WikiCell closes $10 million Series-A financing

In Massachusetts and France, WikiCell Designs, a Cambridge and Paris company developing deliciously edible forms of food and beverage packaging, today announced that it closed a $10 million Series-A financing co-led by Flagship Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners. The company also announced that co-founder Robert Connelly will lead WikiCell Designs as CEO.

Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures and Terry McGuire of Polaris Venture Partners will join the WikiCell Designs board.  WikiCell is developing edible forms of packaging that enclose food or drinks in ways similar to how nature protects foods such as grapes, oranges, or coconuts.  The company expects to introduce the first WikiCell commercial products in 2013.

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