Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, it wasn’t just AI that got funding in September, as biotech makes up about half the list. Candid Therapeutics , $370M, biotech: The biggest biotech raise of the month went to Candid Therapeutics. Candid is developing T-cell engager antibodies to treat inflammatory diseases.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

At the same time, in most developed countries older adults are accounting for an unprecedented share of the population. In tandem, a large cohort of startups have scaled up over the past few years with offerings aimed at slowing, sustaining or even shaving years off biological age. We are all getting older. In the U.S.,

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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. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator. We also expect Boost’s huge potential on other areas where microbiomes are utilized.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s hoped that if carbon dioxide could be converted at the point of emission, we could deal with the climate crisis a lot faster and create a sustainable carbon economy. Now Copenhagen-based biotech company SecondCircle thinks it also has a novel approach. There are a few companies trying to tackle this. It has raised $310.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Targeting cosmetics brands, the London-based biotech startup has scooped up a $6.2 Our vision is to break the reliance on the petroleum industry by building a new standard of packaging that is performant, cost competitive and truly sustainable,” said CEO Insiya Jafferjee, who co-founded Shellworks after spending nearly three years at Apple.

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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.” “Prosperity7 inspired us to look into sustainable chemistry,” said Zhavoronkov.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Formation Bio , $372M, biotech: Every week there is a big biotech raise and this week’s is really big. More and more biotech startups are using AI to help with their drug processes and investors are clearly taking note. The San Francisco-based company has developed a telenutrition and food benefits management platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

So what do we do about it, and how do we allocate our money, time and brainpower to develop solutions? We already have several multibillion-dollar tech and biotech venture and growth funds; now is time for several multibillion-dollar climate tech funds globally. Nearly every region in the world has been heavily affected.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug development process more predictable, and so he founded Katakem , one of the startups in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200. ” To Oliverio’s point, drug development today is a lengthy and expensive endeavor. . Food and Drug Administration. million ($1.27

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

MEDU , a Mexico-based startup, wants to reduce that waste and replace single-wear medical garments through the creation of a line of sustainable, virus-resistant reusable pieces, including surgical gowns, head coverings and full-body suits. and continues development of its full-body suit. by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

According to a statement, the company will invest heavily in developing new manufacturing technologies across cell and gene therapies, viral vectors, vaccines and proteins. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “It Founded by ARCH Venture Partners investor Robert Nelsen, National Resilience Inc.,

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company — a utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platform — will use the new capital to grow its “high value project development pipeline.” tied) Accent Therapeutics , $75M, biotech: Another week, another big biotech round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

A prominent figure in life sciences innovation, Imran has founded over 20 medical device companies and helped develop the world’s first implantable cardiac defibrillator. In January 2020, their acromegaly treatment, Octreotide, demonstrated both safety and sustained bioavailability in primary clinical trials.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This led her to pair up with David Hachuel to develop a way to make eating a painless ritual for 40 million other Americans also suffering from IBS. Ultimately, fiber is good for you, and removing it from the diet is not sustainable,” Wallach added. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

CEO Brian Spears has a chemical engineering background and co-founded the company, which makes meat from animal cells, in 2018 after spending 12 years developing research laboratory and industry automation. “We

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Money still coming Investors in the space — which is broad and includes several areas of sectors such as biotech, manufacturing and climate tech — agree that while there has undoubtedly been a slow down in investing, the wide breadth of deep tech and the importance of the problems it is looking to solve has kept money flowing.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Big deals The largest startup funding round in April was a $1 billion deal to stealth startup Xaira Therapeutics for drug development using AI. Top sectors Biotech and healthcare was the leading sector by funding amount in April.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There are even startups looking into that, like Shiru, which recently raised $17 million to develop more healthier bonding agents for meat. Boyd Myers noted those claims were inspiration for how AKUA approached developing the ingredient list for its kelp burger, which has 15 ingredients , all of which are food or food-derived.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. “We leave the final formulation and product development for our customers so that we can empower them to renew categories,” he suggests.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The process involves synthetic biology, deep learning and genomics tools that produce fats that are more sustainable than the current oils, like coconut, that are used in plant proteins, but also mimic animal-based analogs in terms of flavor and texture, CEO Yulin Lu told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Louis, Missouri-based venture capital firm soon after completing high school, 23-year-old Williams has backed dozens of companies — with a special interest in agtech and biotech and including a couple of very large tech companies that he’s not at liberty to mention. An early win we had was with Agrible and its sale to Nutrien.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Check your eyes Usually when we talk about healthcare and AI, it relates to a biotech using the technology to refine therapeutics or help with the clinical trial process. The Seoul, South Korea-based company has developed technologies to recycle end-of-life tires and other automotive parts into recovered carbon black and pyrolysis oil.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“Most people consider the CIO to be a technology person, and they want to put them in a technology box, but technology should be only 20% of a CIO’s job,” says Hadari, who has been leading IT for the $15 billion biotech business since March 2021. It can be very challenging to create something with continuity and sustainability.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Our survey respondents think the ecosystem is strong in sustainable energy, medtech, food tech, life sciences, marketplaces, deep tech, gaming and media. The investment scene is described variously as focusing on software, clean tech, life sciences, biotech, organoids, 3D bioprinting, AI and VR/AR. Utrecht is a bit lagging.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Incorporated in Delaware, USA. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Now with 35 employees and new financing, the company is trying to shift from research and development into a food production company. Strategic investors like DSM, one of the largest food biotech companies in Europe should help. That’s including the fat and connective tissue that makes meat… well… meat.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 24, 2024

Sure, there are some, including two $3 billion deals in Q2: Merck buying privately held biotech EyeBiotech for as much as $3 billion, and Hg buying AuditBoard for more than $3 billion. It’s a good time to be an AI chip developer. But there just haven’t been a lot. Everybody’s mind is on chips right now — and that’s unlikely to change.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Nature’s Fynd, which raised $350 million in a Series C round in 2021, created Fy, a vegan protein that can be used as a solid, liquid or powder to make sustainable foods, like meat and cheese. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But any company looking to develop successful plant-based food alternatives often face challenges when trying to replicate certain goods traditionally made from animal-based ingredients. “We have developed a fat-rich ingredient that you can imagine as a 20% fat cream, with a mouthfeel and colour indistinguishable from dairy.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The startup is developing materials from seaweeds such as Macrocystis pyrifera, one of the planet’s most renewable and regenerative organisms, creating yarns and fibers that don’t rely on petroleum or toxic chemicals. This prompted the question: Is there a way to design better products and more sustainable materials themselves?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation. While other food tech companies are tackling softer cheeses like mozzarella or whey proteins, Better Daily is targeting hard cheeses, a process that is more complex, in a more sustainable way.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s been a big two years for biotech investors. Soliome – Soliome wants to reinvent the way we develop sunscreen. Specifically, this team has managed to grow microbes only found in the La Puna desert (an area described as “Mars on Earth” ), where they’ve managed to sustain plant life. The Cohort.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Backers in the round include EVIG Group, Stray Dog Capital, E2JDJ, Tet Ventures, Good Seed Ventures, Sustainable Food Ventures and Shio Capital. Unlike dairy, where there is already sustainability, she believes the egg is still largely untapped. Today, the company announced it raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Mycel is in talks with global cosmetic brands to co-develop the mycelium-based leather products as well as cosmetics ingredients, Sah said, adding that it aims to commercialize its mushroom leather in 2023. Mycel is also competing in the alternative protein space with fungi-based food developers like Mycorena and Quorn.

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