NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eckuity Capital, a North American healthcare growth equity firm, today announced the first close of Eckuity Capital Fund II and the fund’s inaugural investment, leading the Series C of Automata Technologies alongside Danaher, a global science and technology leader. Automata uses artificial intelligence to automate laboratory operations for life sciences and diagnostics organisations, work that has long been manual, slow, and hard to scale. Backing from Eckuity and Dan