Iridia™, Inc., a pioneer in fully integrated DNA-based memory chips, announced that it had closed its Series B financing at a total of $24 million. The round, led by LifeSci Venture Partners of New York, was substantially oversubscribed, with other prominent participants including Western Digital Capital, JSR Corporation, North Sound Ventures, the Pritzker Vlock Family Office (PVFO), Longley Capital, Validus Growth Investors, ATEM Capital, Tech Coast Angels, and numerous industry-leading high net-worth individuals. Iridia’s disruptive technology is designed to integrate the writing, storage, and read back of massive amounts of data in a microchip format using synthetic DNA as the storage media. This combination of functionality will significantly increase data density and durability compared to conventional approaches, while dramatically reducing the physical and carbon footprints of commercial data centers around the world.