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. The provider of AI and cloud connectivity technology was recently valued around $18 billion. Just a handful of U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the constant advancements in technology and research, businesses in this sector require leaders who possess a deep understanding of the scientific landscape and the business acumen to drive growth and innovation. The life sciences industry is known for its unique challenges in recruiting and hiring.

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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. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based firm did not disclose investor names, instead saying it came from a private investor whose portfolio focuses on global technology and real estate investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. That grew into aquaculture farming technology with Russek and his team creating a startup company around it called Maricultura Vigas. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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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

JUNE 21, 2024

Biotech/healthcare and cybersecurity dominated the run of big rounds this week, with a few AI startups also seeing good-sized checks. Marea Therapeutics , $190M, biotech: This big biotech round is actually the combination of two rounds. The top five raises this week came from sectors that have seen good heat recently.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

To a great degree, the largest rounds of the year went to a handful of AI companies working on large language models and underlying technologies to scale them. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

One bold startup called DP Technology stands out from the crowd. 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.

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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. Both on the computational side and on the on the lab side, this is really bleeding edge technologies that I think we will be the first to really put together at any kind of real scale.”

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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. We need more women in technology.

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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. million, per the company.

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

The most valuable new 2024 unicorn company from China is Huawei Technologies smart car subsidiary Yinwang Smart Technology , valued at $16 billion. Healthcare and biotech was the third-highest sector for new unicorns with nine companies. billion, and foundation model companies Moonshot AI , valued at $3.3

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 21, 2025

Nerdio , $500M, information technology: IT professionals are stretched pretty thin these days, so it makes sense that a company that helps automate some of their work could raise big. Latigo Biotherapeutics , $150M, biotech: Many patients shy away from taking opioids while many doctors are reluctant to prescribe the painkillers.

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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

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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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

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

JANUARY 6, 2025

In 2002, prior to founding SymphonyAI, Wadhwani founded Symphony Technology Group , a private equity firm investing in software and technology-enabled services companies. Gen Teare Health and biotech Hinge Health : This is another IPO prediction where were not exactly going out on a limb (pun intended in this case).

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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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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

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

His firm has an impact fund focused on the future of food and began investing in alternative proteins in 2016 before expanding that to delivery systems in agriculture technology, he said. While the solution would be to not do that, not doing that would mean produce doesn’t grow as well, he added.

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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

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 20, 2022

Sunny Kumar, MD, MBA is a partner at GSR Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on healthcare technology with more than $3.5 Sunny Kumar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. billion under management. Blood pressure, body temperature, hemoglobin A1c levels and other biomarkers have been used for decades to track disease.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cosm , $250M, entertainment: Entertainment and technology are intersecting more than ever — and Cosm is just the latest example. Altana AI , $200M, supply chain management: Altana AI, a supply chain management startup, locked up a $200 million Series C investment led by the US Innovative Technology Fund that values the company at $1 billion.

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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. Tekion , $200M, automotive: Providing a software platform to the retail automotive industry may not be the sexiest of technology plays, but it obviously can make a valuable company. Notice anything missing?

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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. FogPharma , $145M, biotech: It sure feels like this will be a big year for biotech startups, as a few make this list every week.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Staying power : 5 strategies for biotech startups to outlast a market downturn , as advised by James Coates. Via, out to bolster its traffic technology offerings, is making good on its promise to do more acquisitions and has now acquired trip planning app Citymapper. Alex found some bullish news for software companies. Big Tech Inc.

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