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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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 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. and AI product development.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 28, 2025

Fleetio , $450M, fleet management: Fleet optimization software platform developer Fleetio locked up a $450 million round to finance the acquisition of maintenance authorization platform Auto Integrate. Island , $250M, cybersecurity: Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $250 million Series E at a $4.8

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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 9, 2025

billion to develop data centers in Spain. 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

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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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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

At Writer, we’re not just creating LLMs that can execute tasks but developing advanced AI systems that deliver mission-critical enterprise work,” said co-founder and CEO May Habib. Artificial intelligence equals real cash Writer’s new round is just the latest example of investors’ never-ending thirst for all things AI.

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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. The company plans to use the tech to develop gene therapies for monogenic liver diseases and cell therapies for autoimmune diseases.

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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

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. This includes a $405 million Series F for battery technology company Form Energy and a $400 million Series A for obesity drug developer Kailera Therapeutics. billion Series C in May.

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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

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 2017, the company has raised nearly $155 million, per Crunchbase.

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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

JUNE 7, 2024

Department of Energy ’s Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. Pika , $80M, artificial intelligence: It never takes us long to get to an AI startup on this list. tied) Prolific Machines , $55M, biotech: Unlike in previous weeks, there was no huge biotech round. No lead investor was announced.

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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. The company will use some of the new proceeds for the development of Arsenal-1 — a more than 5 million-square-foot production space designed to produce tens of thousands of autonomous military systems annually.

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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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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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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. ” Mission Bio raises $70 million to help scale its tech for improving the development of targeted cancer therapies. ’,” said Solomon.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 21, 2025

Latigo Biotherapeutics , $150M, biotech: Many patients shy away from taking opioids while many doctors are reluctant to prescribe the painkillers. Thousand Oaks, California-based Latigo Biotherapeutics is developing a completely different option for pain relief and raised a $150 million Series B led by funds managed by Blue Owl for it.

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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

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

APRIL 26, 2024

This week’s theme was definitely AI, as many of the largest rounds went to startups using AI in coding or biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round this week was really big. Augment , $227M, artificial intelligence: AI coding startups made a big splash this week. billion in March 2023.

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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

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. Then I started working.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Importance of Executive Search and Leadership Development to the Growth of the Life Sciences Industry Ensuring that organizations have access to top talent for key leadership positions and that talent is sufficiently supported and developed is critical to the growth of the life sciences industry.

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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. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested in Unity Biotechnology , which is developing drugs to treat diseases that accompany aging. And Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin invested $2.4

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

So a new crop of biotech companies have worked to integrate these aspects. “Next year, we anticipate having our first drug candidate enter the late preclinical phase of development and regulatory work for an IND (investigational new drug) filing with the FDA, and starting the clinical trials in 2023.”

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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 will use the new cash to grow its user base and add developer tools.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its a good time to be an AI chip developer. Early last year, application security developer Snyk reported it grew its revenue by 50% to $220 million in 2023, while also cutting its losses by 33%, according to the companys Directors Report filed with the U.K.s Nevertheless, it seems almost certain to go public soon. Companies House.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 1, 2024

The quintet that did raise big were from three of the usual sectors — biotech, energy and AI — however one was from a sector we don’t normally see — a vertical farming agtech startup. Fervo Energy, a geothermal developer, locked up a big $244 million round led by shale oil and gas firm Devon Energy Corp.

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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. It is the company’s first disclosed round, per Crunchbase.

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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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Crunchbase News

JULY 19, 2024

Eight startups raised $100 million or more this week as a biotech and financial services company led the way. The startup is focused on developing therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Scorpion Therapeutics , $150M, biotech: Yet another big biotech round. Notice anything missing?

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