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Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding

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Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment. The company exited stealth a little over a year ago, just as the hype around large language models was really heating up.

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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study

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6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech. In her latest investor survey, Anna Heim spoke to six biotech investors about where AI creates value, short-term market shifts, and how they’d like to be approached by founders: Robert Mittendorff, M.D, general partner and head of healthcare, B Capital.

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Eye On AI: Funding To Biotech And Healthcare Startups Using AI Takes Off After Dip In 2023

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Earlier this week, life sciences venture firm Dimension Capital announced it had raised a new $500 million second fund just two years after its first to hunt for startups that are using artificial intelligence to develop new medicines. Venture funding to AI-related biotech and healthcare startups hit only $4.8

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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too

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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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

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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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Genesis Therapeutics raises $52M A round for its AI-focused drug discovery mission

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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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