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. million, per the company.

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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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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

AI-Powered Insights : Leverage artificial intelligence to analyze vast amounts of clinical trial data, automatically identify anomalies, and support improved decision-making. That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) models can step in , analyzing and extracting meaning from mountains of raw information.

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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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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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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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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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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Rockville, Maryland-based X-energy, a developer of advanced small modular nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy, completed its Series C financing that totaled $235 million. X.AI , $135M, artificial intelligence: You may have heard Elon Musk has an artificial intelligence startup to compete with OpenAI.

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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. Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The startup is building a platform using synthetic DNA to store digital data, and has teamed up with storage vendor Seagate Technology for a research collaboration to advance its automated DNA storage and computation platform. Catalog , a Boston-based startup, has come up with a novel way of solving the problem.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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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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Perficient

MAY 21, 2024

Tasked with collaborating on trials and delivering groundbreaking innovations to market, the client’s teams struggled to collaborate or to rapidly make important decisions based on incoming clinical trial data across its multiple aging platforms.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Reid also claims a higher level of automation for its machines — which, to be clear, are still at prototype stage. But bioreactors were only very recently only found in biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories and aren’t exactly designed for easy operation and customization. To operate it, you don’t need a Ph.D.,

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Lifebit says it has a patented technology for federating the data around genomic data, allowing researchers to get more insights while keeping the data secure. In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key. Existing investors Eurazeo, Pentech Ventures and Beacon Capital also participated.

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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. . Gibson says the company’s technology can work around this roadblock. Still, generating antibodies is just part of the picture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

compared to the same time last year, it’s even more important for emerging technologies to present more than promises. The influx of artificial intelligence in healthcare is exciting but often met with skepticism from the public, and rightfully so. Now, as venture capital funding within health tech has fallen 41.2%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“InstaDeep happened to be quite different from other companies in our pipeline as they were actually into deep tech versus applying technology to a certain sector, where basically, you become an operator in that sector. They were developing specific technology that could impact many sectors,” noted Jilani on InstaDeep’s pioneering tech.

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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 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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Existek

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With the major progress in all sub-domains of artificial intelligence, the demand for AI developers has tremendously increased. Considering the rapid pace of technological advancements, we can’t underestimate the maturation of AI. They bring expert knowledge and skills to build AI-powered software, offering innovative solutions.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

For an industry that constantly innovates, evolves and adapts, the reticence to embrace automation is frustrating, but ultimately, unsurprising. Friction created by prolonged implementation cycles, lack of adequate clinician involvement and difficult to measure ROI has left us with a healthcare system skeptical of technology.

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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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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

AgriTech is the use of technology in agriculture with the aim of improving yield, efficiency, and profitability. Technology and data can open new opportunities and help solve problems with production, traceability, and the preservation of natural resources. Livestock maintenance technology. Manufacturing innovation.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Alex Mason, partner at FTV Capital When the pandemic hit, the technology backbone supporting health systems strained under unprecedented demands. Health tech companies are now in a unique position to leverage these pandemic-fueled innovation gains to solve the industry’s most intractable problems. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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The Cipher Brief

MAY 31, 2021

On 25 September 2017, the board of UK-based Imagination Technologies, founded in 1985 (and listed on the LSE in 1994), agreed to a take-over by a Palo Alto-based, Cayman Island-registered private equity firm named Canyon Bridge. Imagination Technologies represented a quick route to getting world class GPU technology.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 24, 2024

Using Crunchbase data , we curated a sample list of 19 companies innovating around the rise of out-of-pocket health spending. million seed round last month to build out technology that analyzes health records seeking ways to save on and improve care. Who’s getting funded? The Illinois startup picked up a $4.8

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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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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. 6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech. Seen on TechCrunch+.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

European participation also remained steady, indicating sustained interest from Europe in leveraging Israeli technological innovations. Notable Deals in 2024 and 2023 The Israeli tech M&A landscape in 2024 and 2023 saw several significant acquisitions that underscore the global interest in Israeli innovation.

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Pandora's Brain

MAY 4, 2023

AI and nuclear medicine Some of the most innovative uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare today are in the field of nuclear medicine, and thanks to AI, nuclear medicine is demonstrating great potential for cancer treatment. This gave Dr Wang privileged insights into the most promising new technologies.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Funding in 2023 to health care startups, including biotech companies, also topped financial services, as it has in prior years. Interestingly priced deals’ What does this all mean for fintech, one of the most significant technology sectors and one that experienced an investment boom in 2021 and into 2022?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Brain researchers have relied on devices called microelectrode arrays for decades, but the technology behind these tools is increasingly outdated. Avoiding the risk and complications of major surgery is important because the populations who stand the benefit the most from a technology like this are people with existing neural issues.

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