TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The appetite for genomic data continues to rise in the field of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but cost is still a factor — even sequencing a full genome now costs as little as $1,000. I asked Almogy what he felt were the areas of the biotech and medical industry that will benefit most from this new capability.

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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

JULY 23, 2021

Pae Wu and Garrett Winther are both partners at SOSV and run the fund’s programs around biotech and hardware. At TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, two experienced investors spoke on the subject and advised startups facing a challenging fundraising path.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 28, 2025

The Santa Clara, California-based startup builds custom networking solutions for the hyperscalers, including networking hardware designed to each customers specifications and a choice of a network operating system with the companys own AI. Lightspeed Venture Partners has been busy the past month-plus.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. HealthTech + BioTech. Winnowing the group to 200 companies was a challenging, exhausting thrill ride, and we could not be more excited by the results. Space + Security. SaaS, Enterprise + Retail.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The world’s labs are under pressure to do more tests and process more materials, not just due to COVID but from the growing biotech and drug development sectors — and automation is the sure path forwards. “We’ve had to build an entirely new hardware stack that allows for this kind of automation,” ElSayed said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The Early Stage Pitch-Off is open to companies from around the world, consumer or enterprise and in any industry — biotech, space, mobility, impact, SaaS, hardware, sustainability and more. . Our last pitch-off had one of the most geographically diverse batches from a TC event. Apply today!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Deep tech, medtech/biotech, climate tech, and crypto and blockchain are all areas that investors say they’re either actively investing in or watching for signs of scale. Now, certain industries are emerging as potential areas where New Zealand can win in the tech space. New Zealanders make really good founders.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 9, 2024

billion — the highest amount invested at this stage in two years — that increase was concentrated in larger fundings and in two leading sectors — healthcare/biotech and AI. Close to two-thirds of these large Series A companies in H1 2024 are in healthcare/biotech. While total funding reached $31.5 Other sectors got short shrift.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Stability AI , the venture-backed startup behind the text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion, is funding a wide-ranging effort to apply AI to the frontiers of biotech. DeepMind spent days training AlphaFold 2 on tensor processing units (TPUs), Google’s costly AI accelerator hardware.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

” Breaking the numbers down by industry, on average: Hardware company CEOs are near the bottom of the pack, with an average salary of $112,000 per year. And, of course, you have well-known founders like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg who took little or no pay and focused on company equity for their compensation.”

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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.” while hardware production happened in China. When asked why the company straddles China and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It is then tech and industry agnostic, which means that these companies can be hardware, software but also deeptech, biotech or fintech startups. With this program, Techstars is looking for companies working on water, energy, waste management and other sustainability-related issues.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The pre-seed round was led by Latin America-focused biotech investor Zentynel Frontier Investments , with participation from academic incubation investors VentureWell , mission-driven impact investor ImpactAssets and a few additional angels from the United States and Latin America. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

a biotech company focused on developing “organ-on-a-chip” technology, closed an $82 million Series E round on Tuesday. An organ-on-a-chip is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: it’s a recreation of a human organ (or system of human organs) scaled down into a tiny piece of hardware about the size of a AA battery. Emulate Inc.,

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Healthcare and AI lead The leading sector for investment was healthcare and biotech companies which raised $6 billion. The next largest sectors for funding in July were hardware companies, raising $3.3 Biotech and healthcare companies have dominated billion-dollar exits this year. billion, and financial services at $2.6

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Another big week for biotech, as startups in the sector scooped up multiple spots on this week’s list. Seaport Therapeutics , $225M, biotech: Seaport Therapeutics isn’t new to this list. The biotech company focuses on medicines for depression, anxiety and other neuropsychiatric disorders. billion post-money valuation.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Dallas-based startup, which launched in 2021, plans to use the money to continue to advance its genetic engineering technologies, as well as grow its software and hardware solutions for applications involved with de-extinction, conservation and human health care.

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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. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. Freenome , $254M, biotech: This is just the first of many big biotech raises this week. billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 9, 2024

Automated driving company Wayve , data preparation company Scale AI and AI biotech company Xaira Therapeutics each raised billion-dollar rounds. Healthcare and biotech was the second-largest sector, raising $17 billion. Hardware companies — in large part due to AI infrastructure and semiconductor fundings — raised $11 billion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

NextMind debuted its Dev Kit hardware at CES last year, but the hardware is now actually shipping out , and the startup shared with me the production version to take a test drive. Bottom line. NextMind’s Dev Kit is definitely just that – a Dev Kit.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 17, 2024

Once again, biotech made up nearly a third of the list while some other sectors that don’t usually make the list — developer platform and analytics — were represented. Uniquity Bio , $300M, biotech: It has become pretty much the norm to start off these lists with a big biotech raise. billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

in H1 2024 was concentrated in larger bets, and in two leading industries, healthcare/biotech and AI, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data. AI-related companies represented 40% of companies and healthcare/biotech around 25%. Healthcare and AI lead The increase in funding at Series A and B in the U.S.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Key Takeaways from BioTechX 2024: A Shift Towards Realism and Practical Applications Capgemini Nov 6, 2024 Facebook Linkedin The BioTechX event in Basel in October was a major gathering for biotech and pharma professionals. This year, there was a different vibe compared to last year. Nevertheless, it is crucial to start now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Biotech company Senzo just raised a $2 million round at a $20 million pre-money valuation to further extend options for lateral flow diagnostics. “Lateral flow,” in this case, is the same type of testing you’ve seen from at-home pregnancy or COVID-19 tests.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

technology, machine learning, hardware, software — and yes, lasers! So I started connecting with lots of people in those early weeks — anybody that was in the biotech realm or Harvard Business School,” Saklayen explains. — could eventually democratize access to cell therapies.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 31, 2024

Mavenir builds cloud-native software that allows enterprises and service providers to manage complex networks without relying on older telecom hardware such as routers and switches. CinRx Pharma , $73M, biotech: This week’s top biotech round isn’t as big as it is on most weeks, but that follows the general trend.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

I’ve tried a few different pieces of meditation hardware over the years, because who wouldn’t love to have a nice shortcut to mindfulness? Some weeks I meditate every morning, and others go by without doing it at all. Turns out healthy habits are a lot harder to develop than good ones.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

However, they seem to think it’s weaker in design, hardware, fintech, robotics and agritech. The investment scene is described variously as focusing on software, clean tech, life sciences, biotech, organoids, 3D bioprinting, AI and VR/AR. Weak: Hardware-based startups (better in Delft/Eindhoven). Utrecht is a bit lagging.”

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

AI surpassed healthcare and biotech, the second-largest sector, which raised more than $15 billion. Hardware, the third-largest sector, raised more than $13 billion. By far, large early-stage rounds were dominated by AI and biotech. Financial services companies, meanwhile, raised close to $8 billion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

But much of the industry is still in its infancy, partly because of a lack of domain experts and software tools that match the progress of quantum hardware. Quantum computers have the potential to carry out highly complicated calculations in minutes that would have taken classical computers thousands of years to work out.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Deus Robotics specializes in full-cycle projects, including hardware engineering, software development, and integration, focusing on automating warehouse and logistics operations. An AI platform enabling pharma and biotech companies to design new drugs more easily ReLeaf Paper Turns fallen tree leaves into paper and sustainable packaging.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The fourth company is a biotech firm interested in synthetic biology. One is a company focusing on cancer care and neurological disorders, which has been using Volta’s tech to develop a DNA extraction process. One is a research institution in RNA applications. The third is a “genome center,” he says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That usually entails deploying all sorts of petri-dish-based microbiological monitoring, hardware and waiting for tests to return from labs. The factories which process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all get very ill, to be blunt. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In addition to the standard array of wearable sensors, the startup points to a custom-built EDA (electrodermal activity) detector as the product’s hardware differentiator. The company is offering a hardware-as-a-service model, straight out of the gate. There’s no upfront cost for the hardware, with plans starting at $20 a month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

It has announced the upcoming launch of connected hardware that’s designed to monitor the “health” of your home, as its marketing puts it. Indian wearable startup Ultrahuman is getting into the smart home game.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield editor Neesha Tambe is conducting the interview. Chrissy Meyer knows hardware. I’m excited to have Gurjeet speaking at an upcoming TechCrunch Live event on March 29 at 12 pm PDT. Oma Fertility investor Chrissy Meyer is speaking at the event, too.

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