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6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies

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Once fringe, underground, illegal or just limited to ceremonial use by Indigenous cultures, psychedelics are going mainstream in medicinal form. Here are six key questions we ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies: Does the team have the skills, experience and values to bring a product to market?

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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

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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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Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor

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Stämm Biotech , founded in 2014, is developing a desktop-sized bioreactor that looks pretty different from the tanks, tubes and knobs traditionally seen in industrial or even benchtop bioreactors. Image Credits: Stämm Biotech. Image Credits: Stämm Biotech. The movement itself acts as the stirring motion.

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

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Biotech can often, and sometimes literally, fly over our heads. For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Leaving the $3.2

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This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier

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When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023?

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New Age Meats bites into $25M for cultured meat product line development

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Berkeley-based cultured meat company New Age Meats announced Monday it raised $25 million in Series A funding that will enable the company to begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year. The cultured meat landscape is gaining new entrants as the technology has evolved.

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Australia’s Fertilis raised $2M to automate IVF embryo culturing

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Two-year-old Fertilis’s technology to automate cell culture with micro medical devices has won support from some investors. The device, the width of a hair, allows for culturing of cells in environments that “more closely resemble the environment of the human body,” Thompson said. million ($1.98 million). .”

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