Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Formation Bio , $372M, biotech: Every week there is a big biotech raise and this week’s is really big. More and more biotech startups are using AI to help with their drug processes and investors are clearly taking note. Sidecar Health believes a free-market approach will ensure healthcare is more accessible and affordable.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

AI and proteins have been in the news lately, but largely because of the efforts of research outfits like DeepMind and Baker Lab. Their machine learning models take in easily collected RNA sequence data and predict the structure a protein will take — a step that used to take weeks and expensive special equipment.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Terray Therapeutics , $120M, biotech: Los Angeles-based Terray Therapeutics, a biotech startup developing small molecule drug therapeutics, raised a $120 million Series B led by new investor Bedford Ridge Capital and existing investor NVentures. Founded in 2021, the company has raised nearly $318 million, per Crunchbase.

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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. As the market tightened, seed-stage companies faced a more challenging environment in which to raise a Series A round. While total funding reached $31.5

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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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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Outpace Bio , $144M, biotech: The big biotech raise of the week came from Outpace Bio. The biotech uses AI-powered protein design to program immune cells battling tumors. The company also uses artificial intelligence to help members get care faster. The new round was led by Aliment Capital.

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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. “Right now the market is in ‘biotechnology winter’ where many companies are running out of cash and are dying.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The past quarter was a quirky one for North America startup funding, with a slowdown in some pockets counterbalanced by continued high enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, Crunchbase data shows. While the IPO market wasn’t especially active, we did see a handful of public offerings, predominantly in the biotech sector.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

For the past few years the M&A market for startups has been slow — and the IPO pipeline nonexistent. However, just as AI is taking over venture, perhaps it is doing that for the M&A and IPO markets. Last week, artificial intelligence chips startup Cerebras Systems reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

A chief commercial officer of a clothing company learned to use Midjourney to create images of new clothing products. Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. The second is the tools go beyond coding assistance.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 14, 2024

AI, biotech, space tech and cybersecurity also saw good-sized raises. Clearly GM is betting — big — the autonomous driving and robotaxi market comes back. The New York-based startup’s market intelligence and search platform — powered by AI and natural language processing — helps clients form corporate and investment strategies.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 2, 2024

Clearly GM is betting — big — the autonomous driving and robotaxi market comes back. AlphaSense , $650M, artificial intelligence: AI-driven market intelligence platform AlphaSense raised $650 million in funding co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners at a $4 billion valuation — a 75% increase from just nine months ago.

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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. based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board.

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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

JULY 10, 2024

North American startup funding perked up in the second quarter, bolstered by early-stage investment around artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence remains the runaway favorite investment theme, as AI-focused startups pulled in $16.8 Overall, investors put $45.3 and Canadian startups in the second quarter of 2024.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

German-based biotech company BioNTech — one of the big manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, among other things — is set to acquire InstaDeep , a Tunis-born and U.K.-based It gives brands a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world. Startups and VC.

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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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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. The company uses machine-generated content and AI to push marketing initiatives.

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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

JULY 24, 2024

Sure, there are some, including two $3 billion deals in Q2: Merck buying privately held biotech EyeBiotech for as much as $3 billion, and Hg buying AuditBoard for more than $3 billion. While valuations have come down, apparently it has not been enough for buyers in the market. But there just haven’t been a lot.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

That’s despite the fact that the public markets have been historically slow and private company valuations have come down, which should make acquisitions more compelling for buyers. While M&A and public-market exits remain slow, secondary financings are growing in popularity , returning some capital to investors.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Navigating the choppy e-commerce seas : As reporter Ingrid Lunden writes, “e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products.” 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies. Big Tech Inc.

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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. The company develops power-optimized chips targeting the data analytics and generative AI markets. In fact, it only took raising about $30 million-plus to make the list.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

So a new crop of biotech companies have worked to integrate these aspects. The money will go toward the requisite testing and paperwork involved in bringing a new drug to market based on promising leads. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Today, the list of heavily funded artificial intelligence companies is lengthy enough that it’s hard to keep track of them all. Autonomy, vertical AI and tools Beyond generative AI, the most heavily funded artificial intelligence companies fall in three other broad categories. Not anymore.

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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. The company develops power-optimized chips targeting the data analytics and generative AI markets. Let’s take a look.

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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 22, 2024

Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: More big biotech raises this week. With breakthroughs in genetics and machine learning, the company is focused on precision medicine for chronic inflammation and fibrotic disease. Clasp Therapeutics , $150M, biotech: Clasp Therapeutics is the next biotech to raise huge.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Meanwhile, the company is developing machine learning algorithms with the ability to pick out subpar cells. . In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key. She’ll plan to expand the machine learning capacity of the platform — a key part of making Cellino’s platform truly autonomous.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. The company leverages machine learning and a large body of knowledge about chemical reactions to create these processes, though as CSO Stanis?aw odarczyk-Pruszy?

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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. Other examples are the design of advanced therapeutics with silicon and routing components on a printed circuit board.

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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. But impact companies could still benefit from new processes, better network effects and more ambition in general.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Of course, as the above chart shows, the numbers are still way off from the aberration years of 2021 and 2022 — when the venture market exploded to never-seen-before heights — but nevertheless show investors’ growing desire to pump large sums of money into companies they believe in. Where is the money going?

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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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