Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2024

Wonder ’s big $700 million raise may have captured most people’s attention last month, but the story when it came for large deals was really biotech. Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: It was a huge month for big biotech raises and this was the biggest. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.

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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

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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

With the guidance and support of experienced executive search consultants, companies can strengthen their leadership teams and drive innovation, growth, and success in the life sciences industry. The rapid pace of innovation and advancement in the sector further compounds the challenges of leadership recruitment.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The victors may not be the greatest innovators, but they’ll be the best at protecting their innovations. A lot of this was incremental innovation around the user interface of coding assistants that developers have been using for 25 years,” says Sonnenblick. The second is the tools go beyond coding assistance.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I’ve had many great positions throughout my career, in many different industries, from biotech to pharma to tech software companies, and currently at a medical device company. But one thing I’ve learned is that it’s never too late to continue learning, so I ended up getting my doctorate in computer and system engineering.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Altana AI , $200M, supply chain management: Altana AI, a supply chain management startup, locked up a $200 million Series C investment led by the US Innovative Technology Fund that values the company at $1 billion. Outpace Bio , $144M, biotech: The big biotech raise of the week came from Outpace Bio.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

A biotech company that has spent 11 years researching supplements to increase human longevity plans to launch its supplements later this year. Then Alexey Ryazanov proposed the innovative idea of large-scale screening of all known pharmacological substances on long-lived mice in order to find those that prolong life.”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Demand for executives who blend operational savvy, clinical literacy, and innovative thinking outpaces supply, pushing organizations to think creatively about leadership pipelines and succession planning. Fostering Innovation to Navigate Industry Transformation Few industries are as dynamically innovative as healthcare.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

The world of AI-powered drug discovery keeps expanding as the capabilities of machine learning grow. “That’s really where we have innovated: we have built DragonFold, which is the first protein-ligand co-folding algorithm,” said Laskh Aithani, CEO and co-founder of Charm Therapeutics.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 12, 2024

After a quiet holiday week, investors were back in action dishing out big rounds to startups in robotics, biotech, healthcare and more. Element Biosciences , $277M, biotech: It’s hard to get through a week without a big biotech raise, and this one’s no different. million Series B funding round led by Evok Innovations.

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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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

France could become a leading market when it comes to sustainability-focused and impact startups due to local and European regulation, innovation and talent looking for opportunities in this ecosystem. According to him, Techstars could bridge the gap between these two worlds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But when an idea originates in a lab — whether it’s AI, biotech, robotics or another deep tech research project — things quickly become tougher and much more expensive. Letting the AI do your crafting : Writer deploys home-cooked large language models to power up enterprise copy , Devin reports. billion , up from the $1.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The focus on foundational principles of protein function allows for an untapped level of bespoke protein design, adds Molly Gibson, co-founder and chief strategy innovation officer. . The company is also building two facilities to expand its wet lab, machine learning and data generation capabilities. .

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 29, 2024

While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Let’s see if April can continue the trend of a growing amount of large raises. Founded in 2020, the company has raised nearly $339 million, per Crunchbase. Shares have since then remained well above their IPO price.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

In it, he argued that the internet will enable innovation on the same scale that electricity did. We are at a similar inflection point in healthcare, with the recent movement toward data transparency birthing a new generation of innovation and startups. What’s the main difference? And every physician in the U.S.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence was big in 2023 — and that could be the understatement of the year. The startup is building what it says will be the “largest AI cluster in the world” and has created large language models to allow people to interact with its AI-powered assistant called Pi, or Personal AI.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 19, 2024

Metsera , $290M, biotech: This week was a slower week than normal for biotech — as it was for most sectors — but that didn’t stop New York-based Metsera. Late last month, optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 7, 2024

Other industry sectors should keep a close eye on the critical milestones and pitfalls of the biotech/healthcare space - with an eye toward what platform, product, service innovations, and architectures may have a potable value proposition within your industry.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 26, 2022

?. It’s no secret that advancements like AI and machine learning (ML) can have a major impact on business operations. Among the top benefits of ML, 59% of decision makers cite time savings, 54% cite cost savings, and 42% believe ML enables employees to focus on innovation as opposed to manual tasks.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

X.AI , $135M, artificial intelligence: You may have heard Elon Musk has an artificial intelligence startup to compete with OpenAI. Seismic Therapeutic , $121M, biotech: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Seismic Therapeutic led the way for biotechs this week — although it is far from the only biotech on this list.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 2, 2024

April also saw a half-dozen rounds of a quarter-billion dollars or more, including a $1 billion round for an AI-enhanced biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round in April was really big. Augment , $227M, artificial intelligence: AI coding startups are making a big splash. Let’s take a look.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yelda Kaya, formerly of J&J Innovation, will join as chief business officer. . Correspondingly, there are a number of academic labs working on developing in-vitro models of human lymph nodes — from lymph nodes on chips to growing lymphoid organoids from tonsil tissue. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Artificial intelligence is having (another) moment — which means scrappy innovation is getting some deserved, if not buzzy, attention. 6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech. As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023? The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Manifold’s innovation is parallelizing in vivo testing with up to a hundred simultaneous tests in a single mouse. There’s a lot of AI and machine learning driven development, a lot of design on the computer. Rather than verifying lab tests, “It’s more for informing design.

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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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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The influx of artificial intelligence in healthcare is exciting but often met with skepticism from the public, and rightfully so. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), startups can show investors and clients that they’ve gone through the necessary checks for safe use in healthcare, creating more opportunity to drive long-term success.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Despite its traditional image, agriculture is adopting new technological innovations and leveraging the cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to increase productivity while protecting our environment. Intelligent software analysis for pest and disease prediction, soil management and other involved analytical tasks.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Four of the new unicorns this past month were under 3 years old at the time they were valued at or above $1 billion with one — a foundation model developer for robotics — launching out of stealth. Healthcare/biotech companies took the lead with three companies that joined the board from this sector. Who invested?

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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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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In such an environment, most would think the tech sector most greatly affected by the pullback would be deep tech — casually defined as cutting-edge scientific innovation that can create brand-new industries. This feels like a tough period … But there are big things happening quietly.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 1, 2024

While we saw a lot of the regular sectors like biotech and financial services represented, we also saw some big deals involving supply chain and automotive startups. Element Biosciences , $277M, biotech: Every month there seems to be big biotech raises, and this one’s no different.

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