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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

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startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented. Armis is one of a handful of companies that plays in the industrial security — also called operational technology security — and IoT security spaces.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study

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6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech. In her latest investor survey, Anna Heim spoke to six biotech investors about where AI creates value, short-term market shifts, and how they’d like to be approached by founders: Robert Mittendorff, M.D, general partner and head of healthcare, B Capital.

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

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Tokuyu Biotech creates smart massage chairs and health care-related products that are connected to apps and sensor technologies. Yztek ‘s E+ Autoff is an IoT device created to stop people from forgetting to turn off their stoves. Systems & Technology Corp.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Xcimer Energy Leads The Way As Big Rounds Dry Up

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tied) Prolific Machines , $55M, biotech: Unlike in previous weeks, there was no huge biotech round. The startup plays at a unique intersection of healthcare/biotech, AI and 3D technology. tied) Osteal Therapeutics , $50M, biotech: Dallas-based Osteal Therapeutics raised a $50 million Series D led by Zimmer Biomet.

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Cold-chain startup Figorr raises $1.5M, backs the roll out of data-driven perishables insurance

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Figorr (previously Gricd ) runs IoT-powered solutions that provide businesses, especially those in healthcare and agriculture, with key data such as location, humidity, and temperature of highly-perishable products, helping entrepreneurs to cut the losses that emerge from lack of such visibility.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Metsera And Rivos Headline A Slow Week

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Metsera , $290M, biotech: This week was a slower week than normal for biotech — as it was for most sectors — but that didn’t stop New York-based Metsera. In fact, it only took raising about $30 million-plus to make the list. That’s still a lot of cash, but clearly round size trended down.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Applied Intuition And Luminary Cloud Rise Above

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Zephyr AI , $111M, biotech: Mclean, Virginia-based healthcare startup Zephyr AI closed a $111 million Series A from investors that included Revolution Growth and Eli Lilly & Company. Like many biotech startups raising big money currently, Zephyr is bringing AI to the sector.

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