US startup targets salmonella with tech

Ancera Software Engineer Gary Root prepares to run an assay on their platform. Ancera is a startup in Branford that has created a machine that can detect and count bacteria in food. This machine will first be sold and used in poultry slaughterhouses for quicker testing of bacterias like salmonella, listeria and other contaminants. (Lauren Schneiderman/Hartford Courant/TNS)

If Arjun Ganesan had been accepted to Stanford University, Connecticut would have missed out on a technology company that has grown to 23 workers so far, with ambitious plans. 

Ganesan, who started his first company 14 years ago while an undergraduate in India, applied to prestigious MBA programmes around the United States, intending to become a venture capitalist that would help start up companies expand into Asia.