The food contamination risk assessment platform, spun out of Yale, has raised money in a series A round that included strategic partners Packers Sanitation Services and Metabiota.

US-based microbial risk assessment technology developer Ancera has secured $8.9m in a series A round featuring cleaning and sanitation services provider Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) and epidemic risk analytics provider Metabiota.

Family office and existing investor Glass Capital Management led the round, which increased Ancera’s total financing to $12.3m. The company’s past investors include Connecticut Innovations, which invested $150,000 in 2013, and LaunchCapital.

Ancera’s MagDrive technology, originally developed at Yale University, enables the real-time examination of contamination in food sources,…