Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

billion globally went to companies applying advances in artificial intelligence to health-related areas such as medical services and pharmaceutical development, per Crunchbase data. The smash hit of the past year was Tempus AI , an artificial intelligence precision medicine company that went public in June.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

OpenAI , $6.6B, artificial intelligence: OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 tied) Poolside , $500M, artificial intelligence: Poolside closed a $500 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures. The startup builds artificial intelligence software for programmers. billion, per Crunchbase.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. tied) Anthropic , $1B, artificial intelligence: Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude, is reportedly taking in a fresh $1 billion investment from previous investor Google.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Biotech offerings, while more plentiful, are also running well below prior highs. Below, we pick out winners and losers for venture-backed tech and biotech companies, focusing on large- and medium-sized IPOs. Top biotech performers Biotech companies that debuted on public markets this year also saw plenty of ups and downs.

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Ooda Loop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It was winner-takes-all in biotech investing in 2024. In late April San Francisco-based artificial intelligence drug discovery start-up Xaira announced it had raised $1bn in one […] The post Why bigger is not always better in biotech appeared first on OODAloop.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While some things tend to slow as the year winds down, artificial intelligence fundraising apparently isn’t one of them. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Let’s take a look. billion in 2021.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

artificial intelligence. ” Marketing AI AI has had a profound effect on many sectors like biotech and cybersecurity, as many startups have added the technology to their platforms. Founded in 2018, the company has raised $172 million, per Crunchbase. It’s a reimagining of the job of being a marketer.”

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Close to a third of all global venture funding went to companies in AI-related fields, making artificial intelligence the leading sector for funding. Large early-stage rounds went to data centers, renewable energy, AI, robotics and biotech. billion in 2023 Crunchbase data shows. Seed settled Seed funding trailed in Q4, for now.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. Anthropic , $4B, artificial intelligence: Amazon has agreed to invest another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic — a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 23, 2025

It was reported MGX a $100 billion artificial intelligence-focused investment vehicle founded by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to contribute about $7 billion to the new Stargate Project. However, that is nothing new for the firm when it comes to large AI investments in the U.S.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 28, 2025

Nexthop AI , $110M, artificial intelligence: Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nexthop AI raised a massive $110 million round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Founded in 2012, the company has raised nearly $241 million, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in clinical diagnosis. “We see ourselves building the foundational layer of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6 But researchers need much of their initial time preparing data for training AI systems.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 4, 2025

After a rocky two years, money has started flowing back to biotech, with the return of the megaround exemplified in the $1 billion fundraise of 2024s top moneymaker, Xaira Therapeutics. Few biotechs can expect to collect $1 billion in financing in one fell swoop, but the artificial-intelligence-focused company did just that.

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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

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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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. I asked Almogy what he felt were the areas of the biotech and medical industry that will benefit most from this new capability.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Artificial intelligence equals real cash Writer’s new round is just the latest example of investors’ never-ending thirst for all things AI. “With this new funding, we’re laser focused on delivering the next generation of autonomous AI solutions that are secure, reliable, and adaptable in highly complex, real-world enterprise scenarios.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition to biotech, Russek felt there also needed to be software and automation components. Finally, artificial intelligence-powered automation and engineering components are designed to remote-monitor the water quality, regulate temperature and oxygenation and feed the shrimp. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2 billion to develop data centers in Spain.

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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. We will be hiring more top notch AI researchers, software engineers, medicinal chemists and biotech talent, as well as building our own research labs.”

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 30, 2025

Other noteworthy merger announcements in recent weeks include: Cancer therapy developer Veraxa Biotech announced last week that it plans to carry out a merger with a biotech-focused SPAC at a pre-money equity valuation of $1.3 billion.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, it wasn’t just AI that got funding in September, as biotech makes up about half the list. Safe Superintelligence , $1B, artificial intelligence: AI research lab Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Not surprisingly, those two rounds came from the cybersecurity and biotech industries. Eikon Therapeutics , $351M, biotech: Eikon Therapeutics raised one of the biggest biotech rounds thus far in this young year. Founded in 2023, the company has raised $77 million, per Crunchbase.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While the Boston startup scene is famous for biotech and deeptech talent, the city has lagged other hubs in creation of ultra-high-valuation AI unicorns. Funding to New Jersey startups, for instance, is already up 37% year over year, thanks mostly to AI cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave , which raised a $1.1 billion Series C in May.

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

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Working to apply artificial intelligence to molecular simulations, DP, short for “Deep Potential,” believes that the unifying power of “scientific research for humanity” […] © 2023 TechCrunch. One bold startup called DP Technology stands out from the crowd.

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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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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Aside from that, the week saw some big rounds from cybersecurity, travel and of course, biotech. Just last month, Helsing , which develops artificial intelligence software for defense, raised approximately $489 million in funding led by General Catalyst that values the company at $5.4 billion Series E in late 2022.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

OpenAI , $6.6B, artificial intelligence: OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 Poolside , $500M, artificial intelligence: Most weeks a half-billion-dollar round would top this list — but this isn’t most weeks. The startup builds artificial intelligence software for programmers.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Safe Superintelligence , $1B, artificial intelligence: AI research lab Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. Arsenal Biosciences , $325M, biotech: The big biotech raise of the week went to South San Francisco-based Arsenal Biosciences.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Understanding the Unique Challenges of Biotech Leadership Recruitment Organizations face some unique challenges when it comes to leadership recruitment in the biotech space. Navigating these unique challenges in biotech leadership recruitment requires a comprehensive understanding of the industry, its trends, and specific needs.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 4, 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. CoreWeave , $1.1B, artificial intelligence: Another big AI-related funding round.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Halda Therapeutics , $126M, biotech: The big biotech round of the week came from New Haven, Connecticut-based Halda Therapeutics, a biotech startup developing therapies for prostate cancer and breast cancer, which raised a $126 million Series B extension from investors including Deep Track Capital and RA Capital Management.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

So a new crop of biotech companies have worked to integrate these aspects. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early. Engine does so with a pair of tools it has dubbed NetMAPPR and CombiGEM.

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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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