Scheduling and shift management software firm OnShift Inc. has raised $2.3 million to build its sales and marketing staff. OnShift, which sells its software as a service to hospitals, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, is hoping to continue growing its market share,

Pittsburgh’s ClearCount Medical Solutions has closed its Series B funding round with the hoped-for $5 million to drive market penetration and R&D for its systems that use radio-frequency identification technology to detect and count sponges used in operations.

Slowly but surely, surgical sponge detection company ClearCount Medical Solutions is marching toward completing its $5 million Series B round of funding.The company has added a $1.5 million fund-raise to the round, pushing it over the halfway point to $2.6 million, according to a regulatory filing. Earlier in the month, ClearCount reported a $1.1 million [...]

ClearCount Medical Solutions Inc. has raised $1.1 million for a Series B round of investment funding that the company hopes will total $5 million.The funding was detailed in a regulatory filing and confirmed by CFO Dave Haffner.The company plans to use its Series B to further support its exclusive (pdf) distribution deal with Medline Industries [...]

David Palmer thinks ClearCount Medical Solutions’ technology will push it over the top in the burgeoning surgical-sponge-detection market.ClearCount, which uses embedded radio-frequency ID chips to track and detect sponges, has the backing of Draper Triangle Ventures as it wrestles with two major competitors for control of the market. After raising $3.4 million last year in [...]

Sponge-safety company ClearCount Medical Solutions has hired a new chief financial officer.In his new role, David Haffner will oversee the day-to-day financial operations of the company and will be responsible for its financial strategy, according to a statement from Pittsburgh-based [...]

CardioInsight Technologies has closed its second funding round, raising $6 million from new and existing investors to speed up and expand testing and commercialization of its heart-mapping technology.

CardioInsight Technologies Inc. has raised $5.7 million in an ongoing funding round to help commercialize its heart-mapping technology. The Cleveland company’s electrocardiographic mapping technology could help diagnose and treat electrical abnormalities of the heart, such as heart failure and arrhythmia.

The 5-year-old business said it closed on $3.4 million of financing, led by Draper Triangle Ventures. It will use the money to drive sales and further develop an RFID-based solution to keep track of surgical sponges.

Eight venture capitalists gathered Thursday evening at TechColumbus to discuss bioscience innovation in the state. The audience included a mix of start ups, portfolio companies and research institutions trying to navigate their way into the panelists’ pockets.