Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Large early-stage rounds went to data centers, renewable energy, AI, robotics and biotech. Large fundings were raised in multiple sectors such as AI, applied AI, energy, semiconductor, banking, security and aerospace, among others. Early stage flat Early-stage funding was flat in Q4. billion invested a year ago.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2024

Wonder ’s big $700 million raise may have captured most people’s attention last month, but the story when it came for large deals was really biotech. Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: It was a huge month for big biotech raises and this was the biggest. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Big money Of course this is far from the only play the Blackstone Group has made in the data sector. 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.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The startup gives access to the highly sought after AI chips from Nvidia through its more than two dozen data centers. 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). It seems well positioned to make that happen.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

billion investment plan, which includes its first cloud data center in the country. NTT data is investing in Calabria. Material science and biotech. Food and beverage, biotech, automation and tourism. Mainly biotech and company involved in developing various anti-COVID solutions. Green Bone Ortho.

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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. Also last month, 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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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind right now — and this week’s list bears that out. Lightmatter , $400M, data centers: Lightmatter, a startup that uses light to link chips together and to do calculations for the deep learning necessary for AI, locked up a $400 million Series D led by new investor T.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

German-based biotech company BioNTech — one of the big manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, among other things — is set to acquire InstaDeep , a Tunis-born and U.K.-based Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers, Romain reports. Chatting, but with a bot : Everyone’s ChatGPTing.

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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. A startup needed to raise $200 million or more to break into this list for the April edition. Let’s take a look.

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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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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Related reading: AI, Data Center And Energy Startups Get Large Capital Infusion In October OpenAI Raises $6.6B Thrive Capital led the list for number of rounds led or co-led with the highest dollar amounts with two at more than $6.6 billion — including OpenAI’s long-awaited raise of $6.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Khosla said that a good analogy was biotech/pharma investing, where it takes 10-15 years from concept to a drug approved on market. .” To summarize the scale of efforts needed, Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab , Heliogen and Energy Vault , said , “We need thousands of shots on goal to do it, and entrepreneurship is the answer.”

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The 300-person shop doesn’t focus on the classic network or data center support roles — those are outsourced to service providers.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 8, 2024

Early stage Activity in Q1 was pretty robust at early stage, boosted by big rounds for companies focused on biotech, artificial intelligence and climate tech. Santa Clara, California-based Astera, a developer of data center connectivity technology with use cases in generative AI, made its splashy debut first on March 20.

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Infinidat

MARCH 28, 2024

The platform works.” – IT Services Associate in the Healthcare and Biotech industry “Outperforms more expensive arrays. 100%” ( SysAdmin 3 in the Retail industry ) and “reliability and performance is 100%” ( Storage Engineer in the Healthcare & Biotech industry ). Never had an issue.

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CTOvision

MAY 4, 2016

Designer proteins open up biotech frontiers. The data center powering California's water management - GCN.com. DPS official admits cheating special ed kids out of supplies - Detroit Free Press. Microsoft vets join VR startup that offers full-body, fully immersive experience.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As part of the deal, Anthropic will now use Amazon Web Services data centers, as well as AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. It even has invested in a handful of biotech companies using AI. The immediate investment is $1.25 billion, with either party having the right to trigger another $2.75

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Drawing from her 20+ years of recruitment experience across financial services, technology, healthcare, biotech, professional services, and the Internet space, Lenzner has some interesting perspectives about top trends. Big Data—Data center systems spending will rise to $143 billion from $140 billion. trillion from 2013?s

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

In Denver, meanwhile, the largest round by a long shot was a $600 million October Series D for Crusoe Energy Systems , a developer of AI-optimized data centers. For Boston, it was Liquid AI , a generative AI startup that closed on a $250 million December Series A. Will secondary AI hubs nab a bigger share of funding?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

millimeters — which teases the idea these data-centered checks could pick up things a normal visit to the doctor’s won’t. Neko’s PR also claims its body scan tech can detect skin changes as small as 0.2

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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

DevSecOps staff and IT managers must gain control over the security of all enterprise data — whether it’s in a cloud store, residing on a laptop at a remote worker’s home office, or sitting in a conventional data center storage array.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The scope includes companies working with machine learning, fintech, biotech, cybersecurity, smart cities, voice recognition, and healthtech. Data Center Solution Annual Summit 2020. The annual event tracks activity in the development of the Data Center Industry. Tech Alpharetta’s Innovation Centre.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Other investors felt that a broader range of industries, like fintech and biotech, would eventually produce the biggest companies in the country. cybersecurity/DevOps/connected everything/deep compute, big data and AI/next-generation storage and data center. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last week AI private market investors likely rejoiced when it was reported data center startup Astera Labs was preparing for a potential March initial public offering. This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

That same week, Xscape Photonics a New York-based startup also using photonics technology to address the energy, performance and scalability challenges of AI data centers raised a $44 million Series A led by IAG Capital Partners and with investment from the likes of Cisco Investments and Nvidia.

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BrainStation Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The New York City Economic Development Corporation has announced in recent years that the city would provide up to $100 million to build the Applied Life Sciences Hub while also pitching in $17 million for the launch of Johnson & Johnson’s new JLabs biotech incubator at the New York Genome Center.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 18, 2020

A comprehensive interface between LIMS and ELN allows for sharing data and leveraging each other’s functionality. It comes in desktop and cloud versions and is suitable for research activities in pharmaceuticals, biotech, clinical sciences, food science, chemistry, materials, and for CROs. Where does it store data?

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BrainStation Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The New York City Economic Development Corporation has announced in recent years that the city would provide up to $100 million to build the Applied Life Sciences Hub while also pitching in $17 million for the launch of Johnson & Johnson’s new JLabs biotech incubator at the New York Genome Center.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 27, 2025

The country did see one massive raise in October, when Singapore-based GDS International , a developer and operator of data centers, raised $1 billion from institutional private-equity investors. Singapore saw the bigger decline, with VC-backed startups there raising only $4.9 billion more than double the $600 million it saw in Q3.

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Cloudera

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloudera Stream Processing (CSP) enables customers to turn streams into data products by providing capabilities to analyze streaming data for complex patterns and gain actionable intel.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2025

Just as data centers have seen billions of dollars in investments to help with the problem, so could quantum computing. Even aside from AI, it seems many are starting to warm to the technology’s ability to transform a variety of industries ranging from healthcare and biotech to financial services to even defense.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2025

Funding to healthcare and biotech totaled 22% of total investment. Hardware received 18% of funding last month, with large rounds for data centers and robotics startups, while 15% of funding went to the manufacturing sector, where startups in defense and aerospace, and material science raised large rounds.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 17, 2025

The Vision Fund also took part in data center firm GDS International s massive $1.2 In the final quarter of 2024, the fund made six investments including participating in AI-powered search startup Perplexity s high-profile $500 million Series D in December. That was not its only AI-related deal. billion Series B.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Atalanta Therapeutics , $97M, biotech: Boston-based Atalanta Therapeutics, a biotechnology using RNA interference for the treatment of neurological diseases, completed a $97 million Series B co-led by EQT Life Sciences and Sanofi Ventures. In 2023, the company raised a $100 million Series D, also led by Eden Global Partners.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Crusoe Energy Systems , $600M, energy: Back in 2022, this Denver-based company was helping power Bitcoin mining by harnessing natural gas that is typically burned during oil extraction and putting it toward powering the data centers needed for mining. billion valuation in the process.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Better models, cheaper energy Venture capital funding alone cant foot the bill for AI model development, chip innovation, data centers and energy output, although a lot of innovation will continue to be funded by VCs. Just a couple of years ago, the U.S. received just under half 48% of total venture spending.

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