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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Big Week For Biotech As Tome Raises $213M

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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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. Our approach and core conviction is that it is actually easier, and ultimately better, to design new hardware systems aimed to foster the growth around the cells, rather than trying to fit these cells to existing engineering systems.”

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US Series A And B Funding Picked Up in H1. What Does That Mean For Funding In 2024?

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. Close to two-thirds of these large Series A companies in H1 2024 are in healthcare/biotech. While total funding reached $31.5

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Machine learning is set to speed up the detection of contamination in food factories

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ensuring that usually entails deploying petri-dish-based microbiological monitoring, hardware and waiting for tests to return from labs. The factories that process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all get very ill, to be blunt. All rights reserved.

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AI, Data Center And Energy Startups Get Large Capital Infusion In October

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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Lambda Leads Massive Week For Megadeals

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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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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. while hardware production happened in China.

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Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise

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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Seaport Therapeutics And Zip Top Big Money Week

Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Another big week for biotech, as startups in the sector scooped up multiple spots on this week’s list. Seaport Therapeutics , $225M, biotech: Seaport Therapeutics isn’t new to this list. The biotech company focuses on medicines for depression, anxiety and other neuropsychiatric disorders. billion post-money valuation.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Uniquity Bio And Vercel Lead Another Huge Week

Crunchbase News

MAY 17, 2024

Once again, biotech made up nearly a third of the list while some other sectors that don’t usually make the list — developer platform and analytics — were represented. Uniquity Bio , $300M, biotech: It has become pretty much the norm to start off these lists with a big biotech raise. billion valuation.

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Global Funding Slowed In Q3, Even As AI Continued To Lead

Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

AI led AI was the top sector by dollars invested in the third quarter, with funding to artificial intelligence startups reaching close to $19 billion, or 28% of all venture dollars, Crunchbase data shows. AI surpassed healthcare and biotech, the second-largest sector, which raised more than $15 billion.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of February: Epic Games Leads The List Thanks To House Of Mouse Investment

Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2024

Figure , $675M, artificial intelligence: Sunnyvale, California-based Figure last week confirmed earlier reports that it had raised a huge $675 million round at a $2.6 Lambda , $320M, artificial intelligence: Lambda hit unicorn status after a $320 million Series C at a $1.5 Founded in 2012, the company has raised $1.9

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Key Takeaways from BioTechX 2024: A Shift Towards Realism and Practical Applications

Capgemini

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Key Takeaways from BioTechX 2024: A Shift Towards Realism and Practical Applications Capgemini Nov 6, 2024 Facebook Linkedin The BioTechX event in Basel in October was a major gathering for biotech and pharma professionals. Last year, we were all about the potential of large language models and generative AI.

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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It is then tech and industry agnostic, which means that these companies can be hardware, software but also deeptech, biotech or fintech startups.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI Laps Field In Another Slow Week

Crunchbase News

MAY 31, 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. This allows customers to scale operations more quickly on the cloud and without the expense of equipment.

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These 10 Charts Show Startup Funding Downturn Continues Despite AI’s Ascent

Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence-related startups secured $19 billion — or 28% of all venture dollars — last quarter. Funding to artificial intelligence startups was nearly $19 billion, or 28% of all venture funding, in Q3, Crunchbase data shows. At the same time, AI is clearly ascendant. Though that’s below the $23.4

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Healthcare And AI Sectors Continue To Lead, While Funding Settles In July 2024

Crunchbase News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Healthcare and AI lead The leading sector for investment was healthcare and biotech companies which raised $6 billion. Large AI rounds were raised by model developers Beijing-based Baichuan Intelligence with $687 million and Toronto-based Cohere at $500 million , and Berlin-based AI-defense company Helsing raised $489 million.

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The Most-Active US Series A And B Investors Made More Bets In H1 2024

Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

in H1 2024 was concentrated in larger bets, and in two leading industries, healthcare/biotech and AI, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data. AI-related companies represented 40% of companies and healthcare/biotech around 25%. Healthcare and AI lead The increase in funding at Series A and B in the U.S.

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Global Funding And M&A Picked Up In Q2, While AI Funding Mushroomed

Crunchbase News

JULY 9, 2024

Automated driving company Wayve , data preparation company Scale AI and AI biotech company Xaira Therapeutics each raised billion-dollar rounds. Healthcare and biotech was the second-largest sector, raising $17 billion. Hardware companies — in large part due to AI infrastructure and semiconductor fundings — raised $11 billion.

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Automata expands its lab automation ambitions with $50M B round

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The world’s labs are under pressure to do more tests and process more materials, not just due to COVID but from the growing biotech and drug development sectors — and automation is the sure path forwards. “We’ve had to build an entirely new hardware stack that allows for this kind of automation,” ElSayed said.

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Affect raises a seed round to grow its stimulant abuse recovery service

TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

There are any number of seed rounds that cross our desks every day, a never-ending march of enterprise software, consumer apps, games, hardware, biotech and sometimes even a space startup. So when Affect’s $1 million seed round from AlleyCorp came to my attention, I wanted to learn a bit more. Let’s hope.

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Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Deep tech, medtech/biotech, climate tech, and crypto and blockchain are all areas that investors say they’re either actively investing in or watching for signs of scale. Now, certain industries are emerging as potential areas where New Zealand can win in the tech space. New Zealanders make really good founders.

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Activ Surgical raises $45 million Series B round to give surgeons eagle eyes

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first of those tools is the company’s hardware component, called ActivSight, which allows surgeons to see things that would otherwise be invisible, like blood flow through microscopic vessels inside tissue. ” This machine learning application won’t be rolled out right away.

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Global VC Funding Isn’t Slowing, But It’s Not Growing Either, April Numbers Show

Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Large fundings were also raised by several deeptech and energy sustainability companies: electric vehicle developer Hozon ; solar provider Pine Gate Renewables ; and quantum computing company PsiQuantum. Top sectors Biotech and healthcare was the leading sector by funding amount in April. Companies in that space raised $5.7

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Artificial raises $21M led by Microsoft’s M12 for a lab automation platform aimed at life sciences R&D

TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

” There have been a number of other startups emerging that are applying some of the learnings of artificial intelligence and big data analytics for enterprises to the world of science. Harasaki is joining Peter Barratt, a founder and general partner at Playground Global, on Artificial’s board with this round.

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Eko expands algorithmic heart problem detection and lands $30M Series C extension

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Eko’s hardware consists of digital stethoscopes that boast a few basic bells and whistles, like noise-canceling technology or the ability to record and visualize heartbeats. Eko has been working toward developing machine learning-based analysis capability. It’s not exactly a “machine learning brain” yet.

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NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Once the port is implanted in the chest and the catheter goes through a patient’s heart, the device captures images of blood cells and then compresses the data and sends it to the cloud, after which it is analyzed via machine learning.

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Precision Neuroscience is making brain implants safer, smarter and reversible

TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“It’s not just the array, but the software — the sophistication of machine learning is a must have to drive really powerful BCI. And you can’t just build the gadget — it needs to be distributed, supported, documented, etc. “And then you have to take it through the FDA regulatory process.”

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Fewer Small And Midsize Venture Funds Are Closing This Year

Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Clean Energy Ventures , based in Boston, closed on $305 million in May for an oversubscribed second fund that will focus on hardware-oriented technologies with the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Kalogon’s smart cushion for wheelchairs keeps the pressure off and brings in $3.3M

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Here’s a diagram of pressure being redistributed from the tailbone region to elsewhere (darker and green means higher pressure: “When you sit down on it, we have a basic machine learning algorithm that at its default settings does its best to accommodate your body, but you can customize it to fit,” Balz said, either using a companion (..)

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Most-Active US Investors In May: Andreessen Horowitz And General Catalyst Lead Month With A Lot Of Big Rounds

Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

In addition, the firm led smaller rounds for AI cancer treatment startup Valar Labs , weapon targeting company ZeroMark , and Rollup , a collaborative platform for hardware. The round, which also counted Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital as co-lead investors, is the biggest cybersecurity round of the year thus far.

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In July: From Personalized Supplements To Better Sleep

Crunchbase News

JULY 30, 2024

The new capital will be used to develop software and hardware for the company’s research and commercial projects — which include dietary supplements and its smart sleeping mask. Well, a San Francisco-based startup raised some cash this month to help you achieve your dream goals.

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In April: Firefighting Robots And Animal-Free Eggs

Crunchbase News

MAY 3, 2024

The Finland-based startup has developed hardware for the collection and recycling of nutrients from wastewaters such as rain. Let it rain This is definitely the first time two Finnish startups have made this list. NPHarvest snatched up about $2.4 million in a round led by Nordic Foodtech VC.

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Agritech startups, innovations & facts

Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Intelligent software analysis for pest and disease prediction, soil management and other involved analytical tasks. The machinery used on farms will be operated using smart technology and the artificial intelligence of robots. Weather forecasts. Automated irrigation. Light and heat control. Livestock maintenance technology.

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Atlanta Tech Events and Startup Hubs You Need to Visit

Altexsoft

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The scope includes companies working with machine learning, fintech, biotech, cybersecurity, smart cities, voice recognition, and healthtech. However, those belonging to information security solution providers (software, hardware, and consultancy) are not allowed, unless partnering with a sponsoring organization.

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

I’m most excited by edtech and the possibility to reach and positively impact millions of students via online learning. It’s weaker in hardware and fintech. Rosa Biotech, Albotherm and CytoSeek. Much stronger, with more processor and hardware activity. Which are the most interesting startups in Bristol?

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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Stability AI , the venture-backed startup behind the text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion, is funding a wide-ranging effort to apply AI to the frontiers of biotech. Called OpenBioML , the endeavor’s first projects will focus on machine learning-based approaches to DNA sequencing, protein folding and computational biochemistry.

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Cellino is using AI and machine learning to scale production of stem cell therapies

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

technology, machine learning, hardware, software — and yes, lasers! Founded by a team whose backgrounds include physics, stem cell biology, and machine learning, Cellino operates in the regenerative medicine industry. — could eventually democratize access to cell therapies.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Big Week For Biotech As Tome Raises $213M

Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

US Series A And B Funding Picked Up in H1. What Does That Mean For Funding In 2024?

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Machine learning is set to speed up the detection of contamination in food factories

AI, Data Center And Energy Startups Get Large Capital Infusion In October

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Lambda Leads Massive Week For Megadeals

Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Seaport Therapeutics And Zip Top Big Money Week

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Uniquity Bio And Vercel Lead Another Huge Week

Global Funding Slowed In Q3, Even As AI Continued To Lead

The 10 Biggest Rounds Of February: Epic Games Leads The List Thanks To House Of Mouse Investment

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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI Laps Field In Another Slow Week

These 10 Charts Show Startup Funding Downturn Continues Despite AI’s Ascent

Healthcare And AI Sectors Continue To Lead, While Funding Settles In July 2024

The Most-Active US Series A And B Investors Made More Bets In H1 2024

Global Funding And M&A Picked Up In Q2, While AI Funding Mushroomed

Automata expands its lab automation ambitions with $50M B round

Affect raises a seed round to grow its stimulant abuse recovery service

Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win

Activ Surgical raises $45 million Series B round to give surgeons eagle eyes

Global VC Funding Isn’t Slowing, But It’s Not Growing Either, April Numbers Show

Artificial raises $21M led by Microsoft’s M12 for a lab automation platform aimed at life sciences R&D

Eko expands algorithmic heart problem detection and lands $30M Series C extension

NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

Precision Neuroscience is making brain implants safer, smarter and reversible

Fewer Small And Midsize Venture Funds Are Closing This Year

Kalogon’s smart cushion for wheelchairs keeps the pressure off and brings in $3.3M

Most-Active US Investors In May: Andreessen Horowitz And General Catalyst Lead Month With A Lot Of Big Rounds

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In July: From Personalized Supplements To Better Sleep

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In April: Firefighting Robots And Animal-Free Eggs

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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

Cellino is using AI and machine learning to scale production of stem cell therapies

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