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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

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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Federated Genomic data startup Lifebit raises $60M round led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Genomic data is considered to be the key to unlocking so-called “precision medicine” Some estimates suggest that by 2025, 500 million human genomes will have been sequenced, but only a fraction of it is being utilized for drug discovery and precision medicine. Privacy issues are regularly raised around genomic data.

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Hong Kong’s AI drug discovery firm Insilico closes $60M Series D

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. This presents an opportunity for Insilico Medicine to emerge as a winner during the biotech spring.”

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Eye On AI: Funding To Biotech And Healthcare Startups Using AI Takes Off After Dip In 2023

Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Earlier this week, life sciences venture firm Dimension Capital announced it had raised a new $500 million second fund just two years after its first to hunt for startups that are using artificial intelligence to develop new medicines. Venture funding to AI-related biotech and healthcare startups hit only $4.8

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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. 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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented. The company is a so-called “neocloud” — a data center firm providing outsourced cloud computing for those looking to build AI. billion in over 900 rounds, per Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 7 VCs who are taking pitches, AI best practices, zero-based budgeting

TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Suggestions like “listen to your customers” and “make data-driven decisions” are so general, they’re hard to implement. “While excessive or unhelpful customer data can clog content pipelines, the right information can power hyper-personalization at scale,” he writes.

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition to biotech, Russek felt there also needed to be software and automation components. Then there is the software aspect that enables remote operation management of the production and workflow mapped out with data so that it is easier to train and perform the farming tasks. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based

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Engine Biosciences expands its digital drug discovery pipeline with $43M round

TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Digital drug discovery in general means large-scale analysis of biological data like genes, gene expression, protein structures, binding sites, things like that. 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.

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Life Sciences Executive Search Firms: Bridging Biotech and Leadership

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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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million. “I hope it doesn’t sound corny, but we don’t have the luxury to move more slowly,” explained Immunai co-founder and CEO Noam Solomon in an interview.

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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 Data reported is as of Nov. OpenAI raised the largest round last month, a $6.6

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The health data transparency movement is birthing a new generation of startups

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

We are at a similar inflection point in healthcare, with the recent movement toward data transparency birthing a new generation of innovation and startups. Anonymized data is much more freely available, while personal data is being locked even tighter (as it should be) due to regulations like GDPR, CCPA and their equivalents around the world.

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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC) , global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018.

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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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ScienceIO leaves stealth with millions to structure health data

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Years before he co-launched a stealthy business to fix the messy world of health data, Gaurav Kaushik was slowly connecting the dots on how better visualization could impact health outcomes. Now, ScienceIO is not the first startup to try to fix healthcare data. ” Can API vendors solve healthcare’s data woes?

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Alumis Leads Big Biotech Week

Crunchbase News

MARCH 8, 2024

However, this week it was clearly biotech leading the way, with three startups from the sector nabbing spots in the top five. Alumis , $259M, biotech: This week saw the biggest biotech raise of the year thus far. While this was the biggest biotech raise of the week, it is by no means the only one on this list.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Big Week For Biotech And AI

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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DNA-based data storage platform Catalog raises $35M

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Conventional electronic media like flash drives and hard drives require energy consumption to process a vast amount of high-density data and information overload and are vulnerable to security issues due to the limited space for storage. There is also an expensive cost issue when it comes to transmitting the stored data.

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Digital biomarkers are healthcare’s next frontier

TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Digital biomarkers, collected from wearable sensors or through a device, offer healthcare providers an abundance of traditional and new data to precisely monitor and even predict a patient’s disease trajectory.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Xcimer Energy Leads The Way As Big Rounds Dry Up

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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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of May: xAI And CoreWeave Lead Big Month For AI

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. Grok is trained off data from another one of Musk’s companies, X, formerly Twitter. billion so far.

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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. Bottleneck at Series A Since the second half of 2022, we found a Series A bottleneck based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. While total funding reached $31.5

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North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2

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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Massive Rounds By Cruise And AlphaSense Lead Way

Crunchbase News

JUNE 14, 2024

AI, biotech, space tech and cybersecurity also saw good-sized raises. 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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cybersecurity Leads With Kiteworks’ Nearly Half-Billion-Dollar Deal

Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Kiteworks’ platform allows customers to share sensitive data with other trusted parties via communication channels such as email and file sharing. The company was formerly known as Accellion and suffered a major data breach in 2021. In 2020 the company raised $120 million in a funding round led by Bregal Sagemount.

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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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anduril Industries Raises Big For Defense

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 in 2024, per Crunchbase data.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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APRIL 17, 2024

The best uses of generative AI are linguistic in nature,” says Richard Sonnenblick, the company’s chief data scientist. Richard Sonnenblick, Chief Data Scientist, Planview Planview “Achieving complete coverage of your code during testing is a massive challenge in itself,” says Sonnenblick. And software code is a language.”

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North American Startup Funding Weakened In Q3 As Largest Deal Took Longer To Close

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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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of October: OpenAI’s Massive Deal Dwarfs All Others

Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

OpenAI , $6.6B, artificial intelligence: OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 The company is a so-called “neocloud” — a data center firm providing outsourced cloud computing for those looking to build AI. The startup builds artificial intelligence software for programmers. billion, per Crunchbase.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of April: Xaira And Pine Gate Lead Huge Month Of Megadeals

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. Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 Let’s take a look. billion valuation.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Scale AI’s Massive $1B Deal Leads Slower Week

Crunchbase News

MAY 24, 2024

Nevertheless, the week saw a $1 billion round go to yet another AI startup, and biotech and blockchain also saw some big deals. Scale AI , $1B, artificial intelligence: This week was like many — one topped with a big AI round. The startup also creates and fine-tunes data sets. The valuation is nearly double the $7.3

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: OpenAI On Top — By A Lot

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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Celestial AI Tops List Of Large Raises

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. Earlier in March, shares of Astera Labs — a developer of data center connectivity technology with use cases in generative AI — soared after its initial public offering on the Nasdaq.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Entertainment And Supply Chain Lead In Another Busy Week Of Funding

Crunchbase News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The company’s platform uses AI to analyze data points through the supply chain to spot anomalies and risks. 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. billion in 944 deals.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Skild AI Grabs $300M To Build Robot Brains

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 this year, per Crunchbase data. based companies?

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These Were The Winners And Losers In A Boring Year For Startup IPOs

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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Space Tech Startup Astranis Tops List

Crunchbase News

JULY 26, 2024

All 10 rounds hit $100 million or more, this time with space tech and biotech leading the way. billion, per Crunchbase data. Third Arc Bio , $165M, biotech: Biotech also saw a huge Series A this week. The biotech startup is developing therapeutics for solid tumors and inflammatory and immunology disease.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Metsera And Rivos Headline A Slow Week

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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cardurion Pharmaceuticals And Human Interest Nab Largest Raises

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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Startup M&A Trends Higher As PE Leads, But Remains Sluggish Compared To Earlier Years

Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But while Crunchbase data shows deal volume for venture-backed companies is likely up year over year, it remains sluggish compared to earlier years. All in all, M&A for venture-backed companies so far this year has reached $67 billion across more than 1,300 deals, Crunchbase data shows. dollars unless otherwise noted.

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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.” “Ren generates a lot of proprietary data for us to train AI to do better than humans.

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UK startup Healx to begin clinical trial on repositioned drug for Fragile X syndrome

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Healx’s platform, called Healnet , uses machine learning to crawl through data on existing drugs, and potential disease targets, to find new connections. Healx’s platform can intake structured public or private data, or data that exists in other forms, like in scientific publications.

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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

Federated Genomic data startup Lifebit raises $60M round led by Tiger Global

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Hong Kong’s AI drug discovery firm Insilico closes $60M Series D

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Eye On AI: Funding To Biotech And Healthcare Startups Using AI Takes Off After Dip In 2023

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

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

TechCrunch+ roundup: 7 VCs who are taking pitches, AI best practices, zero-based budgeting

Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

Engine Biosciences expands its digital drug discovery pipeline with $43M round

Life Sciences Executive Search Firms: Bridging Biotech and Leadership

Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too

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

The health data transparency movement is birthing a new generation of startups

Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

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

ScienceIO leaves stealth with millions to structure health data

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Alumis Leads Big Biotech Week

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Big Week For Biotech And AI

DNA-based data storage platform Catalog raises $35M

Digital biomarkers are healthcare’s next frontier

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Xcimer Energy Leads The Way As Big Rounds Dry Up

The 10 Biggest Rounds Of May: xAI And CoreWeave Lead Big Month For AI

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

North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Massive Rounds By Cruise And AlphaSense Lead Way

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cybersecurity Leads With Kiteworks’ Nearly Half-Billion-Dollar Deal

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

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anduril Industries Raises Big For Defense

Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

North American Startup Funding Weakened In Q3 As Largest Deal Took Longer To Close

The 10 Biggest Rounds Of October: OpenAI’s Massive Deal Dwarfs All Others

The 10 Biggest Rounds Of April: Xaira And Pine Gate Lead Huge Month Of Megadeals

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Scale AI’s Massive $1B Deal Leads Slower Week

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: OpenAI On Top — By A Lot

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Celestial AI Tops List Of Large Raises

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Entertainment And Supply Chain Lead In Another Busy Week Of Funding

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Skild AI Grabs $300M To Build Robot Brains

These Were The Winners And Losers In A Boring Year For Startup IPOs

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Space Tech Startup Astranis Tops List

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Metsera And Rivos Headline A Slow Week

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cardurion Pharmaceuticals And Human Interest Nab Largest Raises

Startup M&A Trends Higher As PE Leads, But Remains Sluggish Compared To Earlier Years

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

UK startup Healx to begin clinical trial on repositioned drug for Fragile X syndrome

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