Crunchbase News

JULY 9, 2024

And there are signs that larger M&A deals increased in Q2, providing much-needed liquidity to venture capital markets. While this past quarter was amongst the highest for funding since Q1 2023, it is not necessarily a signal of a venture market comeback. Healthcare and biotech was the second-largest sector, raising $17 billion.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

We found that the majority of the more active investors listed above increased their pace from a year earlier, an indication that the venture markets could be picking up. in H1 2024 was concentrated in larger bets, and in two leading industries, healthcare/biotech and AI, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data.

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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 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. This could push the price lower, but for now a 90% reduction is more than enough to go to market with.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

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

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

France could become a leading market when it comes to sustainability-focused and impact startups due to local and European regulation, innovation and talent looking for opportunities in this ecosystem. But impact companies could still benefit from new processes, better network effects and more ambition in general.

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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 That is an increase over 2023, but still too few companies to suggest the public markets are truly opening. Companies in that space raised $5.7

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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

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

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. For starters, it’s hoping to bring a COVID-19 at-home rapid test through regulatory approval and then to market, but the company has a plethora of other tests up its proverbial sleeves.

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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. How’s that for product-market fit. However, after putting up a digital ad, her company had to take it down seven minutes later.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company will also be ramping up the expansion of sales and marketing operations across the U.S. “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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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Last quarter, AI outstripped healthcare and biotech ($15 billion invested in Q3), hardware ($13 billion), and financial services and fintech ($8 billion), Crunchbase data shows. the largest startup market in Europe, saw a dramatic 43% year-over-year decline in venture investment, to $3.2 Though that’s below the $23.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Markets: 39 new countries (169 in total). The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%. Deus Robotics specializes in full-cycle projects, including hardware engineering, software development, and integration, focusing on automating warehouse and logistics operations.

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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. Jasper Voorendonk , marketer/founder, AgnostiPay. One says: “In Amsterdam it’s ok.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Wolf said that most of the last round in still in the bank; the latest funding is an opportunistic extension, made to shore up capital in the face of potentially stormy waters in the markets next year. “We “I don’t see us dong anything in hardware. “I don’t see us dong anything in hardware.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

With a newly raised $41 million in the bank, they’re all set to embark on the complex path to market. ” One of the biggest challenges when building a medical device of any kind, to say nothing of a brain implant, is the huge task of proving both the applications and safety before you go to market.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

But as the venture market continues to plug along, a smaller amount of deal-making seems to be the preferred route for even the biggest VC firms. 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.

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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. That’s a lot of cash for what once was a very niche market, but it’s looking like that may not be true anymore. craft brewery and 20th largest overall U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

As Fuller describes it, he saw an interesting gap (and opportunity) in the market to apply automation, which he had seen help advance work in industrial settings, to the world of life sciences, both to help scientists track what they are doing better, and help them carry out some of the more repetitive work that they have to do day in, day out.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Overall venture funding is still far below the 2021 peak , and many that raised during bubblier market conditions turned cautious when the cycle turned. It also doesn’t help prospective 2024 vintage funds that many older vehicles are still well capitalized.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

All Weather Marketing: How to Weather the Storm and Win Market Share , with LinkedIn. Famously Overlooked: How Underestimated Founders Survive and Thrive in a Competitive Market , with Capital Connect by J.P. How to Achieve Product Market Fit (PMF) , with DevRev. BF 200 Fast-Pitch Sessions — Heath Tech and Biotech. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The end of that project offered a moment of self-reflection, and I realized that I had spent my entire life building hardware and software for enterprises. The end of that project, in 2019, however, did not kill his innovativeness; instead it inspired him to launch Ponea Health as a marketplace for healthcare services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The timing when we come to market in 2025 will be well-suited because Hospital at Home models will be more mature and we’ll be ready to integrate.”. In addition to the hardware, the startup will have a subscription model for its software that will collect and analyze results for physicians.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The global medical imaging market was valued at a touch over $28 billion in 2021 , and is only expected to rise with an increase in demand for early-detection services as well as lifestyle and age-related conditions. Yet at the same time as demand for radiology services is increasing, the number of available radiographers is decreasing.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 30, 2024

The company launched in 2021 and helps cleaners streamline all aspects of their business, including payments, delivery and even marketing. The startup has now raised more than $77 million, per the company, and also announced it has acquired Laundroworks — a hardware-based payments system for paying at laundromats and shared laundry rooms.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 3, 2024

The company plans to use the fresh cash to scale up its North American go-to-market strategy, so it may be in the grocery store aisles on this side of the Atlantic sooner rather than later. The Finland-based startup has developed hardware for the collection and recycling of nutrients from wastewaters such as rain.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A recent FT Lex article on biotech investing drives the point home: "A 20-year study found only one-fifth of exits were profitable. This took advantage of a unique characteristics of software vis-a-vis its industrial (hardware) predecessors: real-time adaptability. Just 4 per cent of investments made half the returns."

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

BeeHero has been growing fast since its debut and seed round last year, and $19M in new funding means it can scale beyond its initial markets and find more uses for its one-of-a-kind collection of data collected from thousands of active honeybee hives.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Publica is a service that enables authors and content creators to have their own custom storefront to share, market and sell e-books, audiobooks and any other types of digital content with no intermediaries,” CEO Pablo Laurino tells TechCrunch. “In Essentially, the company wants to be a direct conduit between content creators and consumers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It was granted approval through this pathway because the classification process was substantially similar to an equivalent already on the market.).

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Altexsoft

JUNE 18, 2020

The other LIMS is modular in design Sample Master for smaller laboratories that can pick hardware and software to their needs. One of the LIMS market pioneers, LabWare LIMS is a rich catalogue of modular laboratory management software functionality. Configurable dashboard giving a quick overview of the state of things.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Their departures follow the exit of the EVP of customer experience, the SVP of capital markets and growth and a trio of high-level public relations folks. The hardware business has been less forgiving lately. carriers are notoriously hostile to disfavored brands — particularly in a down market. Ingrid has the story.

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