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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

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Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. This allows product developers to review and discuss 3D models in more than 30 file formats in real time. Perhaps that day is edging closer.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of February: Saronic And NinjaOne Lead Big Month

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Lambda , $480M, artificial intelligence: Lambda, which offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software, raised a $480 million Series D co-led by Andra Capital and SGW. Eikon Therapeutics , $351M, biotech: Eikon Therapeutics raised one of the biggest biotech rounds thus far in 2025.

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Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win

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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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Automata expands its lab automation ambitions with $50M B round

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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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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

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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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Global Funding And M&A Picked Up In Q2, While AI Funding Mushroomed

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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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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

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Before you can even start to disentangle someone’s genetic code, you have to start with a sample. However, as the authors of a 2020 review paper on the electrowetting industry note, the instrument was “discontinued for undisclosed reasons” in 2017. The fourth company is a biotech firm interested in synthetic biology.