TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Best practices for leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2023 Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway Image Credits: Getty Images It’s critical to make every dollar count in this environment, but pulling back too much in the wrong places can reduce momentum across your entire organization. “The

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There may not have been a $1 billion raise this week, but large money deals did abound. startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented. billion valuation in the process. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition to biotech, Russek felt there also needed to be software and automation components. Finally, artificial intelligence-powered automation and engineering components are designed to remote-monitor the water quality, regulate temperature and oxygenation and feed the shrimp. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The appetite for genomic data continues to rise in the field of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but cost is still a factor — even sequencing a full genome now costs as little as $1,000. The third advance involves machine learning to accelerate the process of turning optical data (the CD-style scanning signal) into usable data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Sifting through the trillions of molecules out there that might have powerful medicinal effects is a daunting task, but the solution biotech has found is to work smarter, not harder. Machine learning has, of course, accelerated work in many fields, biochemistry among them, but he felt that the potential of the technology had not been tapped.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

The biotech company Moderna , for example, is aiming to use ChatGPT Enterprise to “automate nearly every business process” in order to “outpace its plan to roll out 15 new products within the next five years.” And with every passing day, “your guess is as good as mine” will become an increasingly uncomfortable answer.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Biotech and AI had another strong week, as the sectors saw two big nine-figure rounds each — including one for $370 million in biotech. Candid Therapeutics , $370M, biotech: Every week there’s a big biotech raise — and this week there’s one that’s really big. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

So a new crop of biotech companies have worked to integrate these aspects. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early. Engine does so with a pair of tools it has dubbed NetMAPPR and CombiGEM.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Safe Superintelligence , $1B, artificial intelligence: AI research lab Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. Arsenal Biosciences , $325M, biotech: The big biotech raise of the week went to South San Francisco-based Arsenal Biosciences.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 4, 2024

xAI , $6B, artificial intelligence: Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced its long-awaited fundraise — making it the second-most-valuable generative AI company in the world behind only competitor OpenAI. It introduced its latest AI model, called Grok-1.5, earlier this year.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, it wasn’t just AI that got funding in September, as biotech makes up about half the list. Safe Superintelligence , $1B, artificial intelligence: AI research lab Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

“In addition to DNA storage, Catalog has already discovered the means to incorporate DNA into algorithms and applications with potential widespread cases including artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and secure computing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. The company leverages machine learning and a large body of knowledge about chemical reactions to create these processes, though as CSO Stanis?aw odarczyk-Pruszy?ski

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

Pika , $80M, artificial intelligence: It never takes us long to get to an AI startup on this list. Pika, an artificial intelligence startup that generates video, raised an $80 million round led by Spark Capital that values the Palo Alto, California-based company at $470 million, per Bloomberg.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Understanding the Unique Challenges of Biotech Leadership Recruitment Organizations face some unique challenges when it comes to leadership recruitment in the biotech space. Navigating these unique challenges in biotech leadership recruitment requires a comprehensive understanding of the industry, its trends, and specific needs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Generate Biomedicines’ approach is to use artificial intelligence to understand what other functional proteins we might be capable of making, as opposed to identifying untapped extant proteins. . The company is also building two facilities to expand its wet lab, machine learning and data generation capabilities. .

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Crunchbase News

MAY 24, 2024

Nevertheless, the week saw a $1 billion round go to yet another AI startup, and biotech and blockchain also saw some big deals. Scale AI , $1B, artificial intelligence: This week was like many — one topped with a big AI round. It was a slower week for big rounds compared to many of the past few.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Tunisian startup, headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Tunis, Lagos, Dubai and Cape Town, uses advanced machine learning techniques to bring AI to applications within an enterprise environment. Other examples are the design of advanced therapeutics with silicon and routing components on a printed circuit board.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While some things tend to slow as the year winds down, artificial intelligence fundraising apparently isn’t one of them. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Let’s take a look. billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Staying power : 5 strategies for biotech startups to outlast a market downturn , as advised by James Coates. Now let’s move over to Microsoft, which unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot , a suite of productivity and enterprise apps that are full of artificial intelligence–powered goodies. Kyle has more.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Aside from that, the week saw some big rounds from cybersecurity, travel and of course, biotech. Just last month, Helsing , which develops artificial intelligence software for defense, raised approximately $489 million in funding led by General Catalyst that values the company at $5.4 billion Series E in late 2022.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The week was especially good for biotech, which led the way with two big raises. Tome Biosciences , $213M, biotech: A big biotech raise hit high on the list this week. Bicara Therapeutics , $165M, biotech: If Bicara Therapeutics looks familiar, it’s because this isn’t its first time on this list.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Healx’s platform, called Healnet , uses machine learning to crawl through data on existing drugs, and potential disease targets, to find new connections. Healx’s approach happens to be artificial intelligence. . Healx’s clinical trial on potential Fragile X drugs will be the company’s first on a repositioned drug.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The city’s tech ecosystem appears to have a robust space for machine learning, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, fintech, travel tech, oil, renewables, e-commerce, gaming, health tech, deep tech, space tech and insurtech. Strong in machine learning/AI/digital. Lysimachos Zografos, founder, Parkure.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 26, 2024

This week’s theme was definitely AI, as many of the largest rounds went to startups using AI in coding or biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round this week was really big. Xaira is the latest — although likely best-funded — startup to try to use AI models to find new drugs. billion in March 2023.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 10, 2024

North American startup funding perked up in the second quarter, bolstered by early-stage investment around artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence remains the runaway favorite investment theme, as AI-focused startups pulled in $16.8 Overall, investors put $45.3 and Canadian startups in the second quarter of 2024.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 8, 2024

However, this week it was clearly biotech leading the way, with three startups from the sector nabbing spots in the top five. Alumis , $259M, biotech: This week saw the biggest biotech raise of the year thus far. While this was the biggest biotech raise of the week, it is by no means the only one on this list.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“Searching for the right solution led the team deep into machine learning techniques, which came with requirements to use large amounts of data and deliver robust models to production consistently … The techniques used were platformized, and the solution was used widely at Lyft.”

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Ooda Loop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It was winner-takes-all in biotech investing in 2024. In late April San Francisco-based artificial intelligence drug discovery start-up Xaira announced it had raised $1bn in one […] The post Why bigger is not always better in biotech appeared first on OODAloop.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Not exactly sure what was in the water this week, but AI and biotech led the way as happens often. Lambda , $320M, artificial intelligence: In a big week, this was the biggest round. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. billion valuation.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

One is putting in secure chat, so developers can converse freely with the LLM about their specific coding issues, as opposed to just going to OpenAI where there isn’t necessarily sufficient trust to share issues about proprietary code. Some will probably sell a service where they adapt open models to specific problems.”

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 9, 2024

billion — the highest amount invested at this stage in two years — that increase was concentrated in larger fundings and in two leading sectors — healthcare/biotech and AI. Those large rounds slowed every half year since, but increased in 2024. Close to two-thirds of these large Series A companies in H1 2024 are in healthcare/biotech.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 19, 2024

Eight startups raised $100 million or more this week as a biotech and financial services company led the way. Saronic’s new round comes just about a week after Germany-based Helsing , which develops artificial intelligence software for defense, raised approximately $489 million in funding led by General Catalyst that valued the company at $5.4

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Writer’s platform is designed to help businesses use large language models to improve workflows and offers AI solutions that can execute complex enterprise operations across systems and teams. Existing investors Accenture , Balderton Capital , Insight Partners and Vanguard also participated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We’re taking a data-first approach to artificial intelligence, building the technology necessary to turn disparate healthcare data into high-quality, computable data,” said Kaushik. The startup’s differentiator, though, is that it has spent years building up a database of what it claims is the most representative data out there.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 14, 2024

AI, biotech, space tech and cybersecurity also saw good-sized raises. AlphaSense , $650M, artificial intelligence: AI-driven market intelligence platform AlphaSense raised $650 million in funding co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners at a $4 billion valuation — a 75% increase from just nine months ago.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hong Kong-based drug discovery and development company Insilico has secured fresh capital at a time that its CEO described as a “biotech winter.” Insilico uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets and eventually create the drug.

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