Ion Torrent: Quantapore lands $35 million investment in quest for faster, cheaper, better DNA sequencing

As a scientist at DNA sequencing technology company Ion Torrent, Martin Huber was struck by a nagging thought: The company's cutting-edge bench-top instrument surely was better than existing technology, but it still represented only incremental improvement. Huber believed the boundary could be pushed, and a $35 million investment will allow his Menlo Park company, Quantapore Inc., to prove that its experimental system indeed is better. The company did not say where it got the money, which is tied…