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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home

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.” Though Weisinger has seen access issues professionally, personally she has also seen her friends and family experience hardships in accessing medical equipment due to the various layers of complications.

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Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win

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Now, certain industries are emerging as potential areas where New Zealand can win in the tech space. 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. New Zealanders make really good founders.

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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

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He believes that the tech ecosystem has matured quite a lot in France over the past ten years. 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.

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Glyphic Biotechnologies raises $6M to accelerate protein sequencing by orders of magnitude

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The whole human proteome may be free to browse thanks to DeepMind , but at the bleeding edge of biotech new proteins are made and tested every day, a complex and time-consuming process. At first Glyphic would be processing samples sent to them, but ultimately their tech could live in other labs as their competitors do now.

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Global Funding Slowed In Q3, Even As AI Continued To Lead 

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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. Last quarter, large fundings went to autonomous driving, defense tech, professional services, semiconductor and AI model companies.

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Withings Body Scan review: A smart scale that tracks cardio health, body comp and more

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French health tech brand Withings has been around the block and some. These days it offers a range of fitness wearables and monitors.

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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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