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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Greentech And Biotech See $200M Raises

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Of course, biotech and fintech were in there too. tied) Serán Bioscience , $200M, biotech : The big biotech raise this week went to Serán Bioscience. A rather odd week in venture, as the biggest rounds were raised by greentech, business travel and charity startups. The new cash infusion was led by The Column Group.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Infinite Reality Tops Busy Month

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Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. tied) Retro Biosciences , $1B, biotech: AI can do a lot startup Retro Biosciences thinks it can even help us live longer. billion valuation. That number is a 17% jump from the $7.1

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

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We’re calling it the internet of production.”. Nicolai Peitersen, co-founder and executive chairman of Wikifactory said: “Wide-scale global collaboration to make physical things is happening both for open-source and for proprietary product development. Online collaboration and distributed production is becoming mainstream.

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Only one week until TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 opens a world of opportunity

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Just seven days until more than 10,000 people around the world storm the internet to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. We’re talking three event- and programming-packed days focused on anything — and everything — related to early-stage tech startups. We have more than 80 presentations (and counting) on tap. Also covered.

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Meet the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, presented by ShowStoppers and TAITRA

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Shaped like a small cube, Qubii automatically backs up phones while they are charging and doesn’t need internet or WiFi connections. Tokuyu Biotech creates smart massage chairs and health care-related products that are connected to apps and sensor technologies. Maktar is the maker of a smartphone backup device called Qubii.

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The health data transparency movement is birthing a new generation of startups

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In it, he argued that the internet will enable innovation on the same scale that electricity did. Later legislation required biotech and pharma companies to disclose monies paid to research partners. In the early 2000s, Jeff Bezos gave a seminal TED Talk titled “ The Electricity Metaphor for the Web’s Future.”

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all

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Staying power : 5 strategies for biotech startups to outlast a market downturn , as advised by James Coates. Delisted : Five Russia-affiliated internet companies, including Yandex, are being formally delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE , Paul writes. Alex found some bullish news for software companies.

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