Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

billion globally went to companies applying advances in artificial intelligence to health-related areas such as medical services and pharmaceutical development, per Crunchbase data. The smash hit of the past year was Tempus AI , an artificial intelligence precision medicine company that went public in June.

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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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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence: Driving ROI across the board AI is the poster child of deep tech making a direct impact on business performance. Biotechnology and synthetic biology: The swift development of mRNA vaccines in 2020 illustrated biotechs unprecedented speed in delivering transformative products.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

OpenAI , $6.6B, artificial intelligence: OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 tied) Poolside , $500M, artificial intelligence: Poolside closed a $500 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures. The startup builds artificial intelligence software for programmers. billion, per Crunchbase.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The surge was driven by large funds leading supergiant rounds in capital-intensive businesses in areas such as artificial intelligence, data centers and energy. The second-largest sector, healthcare and biotech, raised around $5.6 OpenAI raised the largest round last month, a $6.6

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. tied) Anthropic , $1B, artificial intelligence: Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude, is reportedly taking in a fresh $1 billion investment from previous investor Google.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 23, 2025

However, that is nothing new for the firm when it comes to large AI investments in the U.S. It was reported MGX a $100 billion artificial intelligence-focused investment vehicle founded by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to contribute about $7 billion to the new Stargate Project.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

artificial intelligence. ” Marketing AI AI has had a profound effect on many sectors like biotech and cybersecurity, as many startups have added the technology to their platforms. Founded in 2018, the company has raised $172 million, per Crunchbase. It’s a reimagining of the job of being a marketer.”

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Table of Contents Breakout year for AI Q4 push Large values, billion-dollar rounds US gained, Silicon Valley fired up Late-stage Q4 boom Early stage flat Seed settled Liquidity hold-up Methodology Glossary of funding terms Related reading Breakout year for AI One thing was clear: 2024 was the breakout year for funding to AI companies.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Understanding the Unique Challenges in Recruiting for Biotech and Life Sciences The recruitment process in the biotech and life sciences industry comes with its own set of unique challenges. One of the primary obstacles is the need for more highly skilled and qualified talent.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Just as the holiday season begins, a sleighful of companies unveiled large funding rounds. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a funding round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. The $6 billion round valued the company at $24 billion post money.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 28, 2025

Nexthop AI , $110M, artificial intelligence: Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nexthop AI raised a massive $110 million round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Founded in 2012, the company has raised nearly $241 million, per Crunchbase.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2 billion to develop data centers in Spain.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Biotech offerings, while more plentiful, are also running well below prior highs. Below, we pick out winners and losers for venture-backed tech and biotech companies, focusing on large- and medium-sized IPOs. Top biotech performers Biotech companies that debuted on public markets this year also saw plenty of ups and downs.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 4, 2025

After a rocky two years, money has started flowing back to biotech, with the return of the megaround exemplified in the $1 billion fundraise of 2024s top moneymaker, Xaira Therapeutics. Few biotechs can expect to collect $1 billion in financing in one fell swoop, but the artificial-intelligence-focused company did just that.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

To a great degree, the largest rounds of the year went to a handful of AI companies working on large language models and underlying technologies to scale them. While the Boston startup scene is famous for biotech and deeptech talent, the city has lagged other hubs in creation of ultra-high-valuation AI unicorns.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million. “I hope it doesn’t sound corny, but we don’t have the luxury to move more slowly,” explained Immunai co-founder and CEO Noam Solomon in an interview.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. This presents an opportunity for Insilico Medicine to emerge as a winner during the biotech spring.”

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 21, 2024

Biotech/healthcare and cybersecurity dominated the run of big rounds this week, with a few AI startups also seeing good-sized checks. Marea Therapeutics , $190M, biotech: This big biotech round is actually the combination of two rounds. The top five raises this week came from sectors that have seen good heat recently.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Working to apply artificial intelligence to molecular simulations, DP, short for “Deep Potential,” believes that the unifying power of “scientific research for humanity” […] © 2023 TechCrunch. One bold startup called DP Technology stands out from the crowd.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

With cloud-based servers and sophisticated, yet inexpensive, sensors both on the body and off, patients can be monitored at home more effectively than in a hospital, especially when the sensor data is analyzed with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technology. Opportunities for digital biomarkers.

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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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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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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

After a couple of blistering weeks, large funding rounds slowed down to a crawl, with only two rounds hitting nine figures. Not surprisingly, those two rounds came from the cybersecurity and biotech industries. Eikon Therapeutics , $351M, biotech: Eikon Therapeutics raised one of the biggest biotech rounds thus far in this young year.

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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

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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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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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

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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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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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

OpenAI , $6.6B, artificial intelligence: OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 Poolside , $500M, artificial intelligence: Most weeks a half-billion-dollar round would top this list — but this isn’t most weeks. The startup builds artificial intelligence software for programmers.

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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

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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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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