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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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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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

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

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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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

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

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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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We already have several multibillion-dollar tech and biotech venture and growth funds; now is time for several multibillion-dollar climate tech funds globally. If we believe that the climate crisis is too complex and cannot be fixed fast enough, let’s look at biotech. The moral imperative. I know it is a capital-intensive sector.

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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

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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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

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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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Top sectors Biotech and healthcare was the leading sector by funding amount in April. Other leading sectors in April include hardware startups, which collectively raised $3.3 Companies in that space raised $5.7 billion, or around 26% of all funding, according to Crunchbase data. AI companies raised $3.9 billion; manufacturing ($2.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s weaker in hardware and fintech. Rosa Biotech, Albotherm and CytoSeek. Much stronger, with more processor and hardware activity. Bristol has a strong biotech, quantum, digital, science-based/deep tech ecosystem. Bristol is strong in media/animation, edtech, social impact, health and science. What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

There are any number of seed rounds that cross our desks every day, a never-ending march of enterprise software, consumer apps, games, hardware, biotech and sometimes even a space startup. But amid the regular flow of funding news, it’s still rare to come across a company raising money to take on addiction with software.

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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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Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2024

The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. Freenome , $254M, biotech: This is just one of many big biotech raises this month. Lambda , $320M, artificial intelligence: Lambda hit unicorn status after a $320 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ensuring that usually entails deploying petri-dish-based microbiological monitoring, hardware and waiting for tests to return from labs. The factories that 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

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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“Their investment in Mimi is another testament not only to the depth and breadth of the German venture capital climate, but also to the importance and tremendous commercial potential of Mimi’s vision.” ”

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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

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 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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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

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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Weak Development Team Technical Review Sustainability Biotech 203

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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Weak Development Team VR Sustainability Hardware 262

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first of those tools is the company’s hardware component, called ActivSight, which allows surgeons to see things that would otherwise be invisible, like blood flow through microscopic vessels inside tissue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Artificial’s aLab Suite is especially exciting to us because it is uniquely positioned to automate the masses: it’s accessible, low code, easy to use, highly configurable, and interoperable with common lab hardware and software.

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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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Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Healthcare 108

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In addition to the hardware, the startup will have a subscription model for its software that will collect and analyze results for physicians. As for the company’s business model, Skinner says the startup will look at licensing the technology to port manufacturers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and virtual clinic trial companies.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

In addition, the firm led smaller rounds for AI cancer treatment startup Valar Labs , weapon targeting company ZeroMark , and Rollup , a collaborative platform for hardware. The round, which also counted Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital as co-lead investors, is the biggest cybersecurity round of the year thus far.

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Generative AI Software Review Systems Review Healthcare 112

Crunchbase News

JULY 30, 2024

The new capital will be used to develop software and hardware for the company’s research and commercial projects — which include dietary supplements and its smart sleeping mask. Well, a San Francisco-based startup raised some cash this month to help you achieve your dream goals.

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