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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

Biotech can often, and sometimes literally, fly over our heads. For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Image Credits: Witthaya Prasongsin / Getty Images.

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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

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Techstars , a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris. With this sustainability-focused accelerator, Techstars is hitting the reboot button. Every year, Techstars Sustainability Paris plans to accept 24 startups across two batches.

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Biotech startup Shiru sprouting plant-based ingredients with new capital infusion

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We aim to cover a lot of food categories, but by replacing them with sustainable and nutritious ingredients.”. Both the food ingredients and plant-based proteins markets are poised for steady growth. Beyond Meat’s plant-based ‘chicken’ tenders are coming to grocery stores.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising beyond the Bay Area, web3 gaming, TDD prep checklist

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Reporter Dominic-Madori Davis moderated a discussion with Yin, Mike Asem (founding partner of M25), and Accel partner Rich Wong that elicited suggestions for early-stage founders who don’t live in the 415 area code and spilled the tea about “the emerging markets on their radars.”. 5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market.

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Genesis Therapeutics raises $52M A round for its AI-focused drug discovery mission

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Sifting through the trillions of molecules out there that might have powerful medicinal effects is a daunting task, but the solution biotech has found is to work smarter, not harder. We will be hiring more top notch AI researchers, software engineers, medicinal chemists and biotech talent, as well as building our own research labs.”

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New Zealand’s Humble Bee Bio is using bees to create bioplastics

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While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2 “It’s resistant to acids and bases. .

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Eye On AI: Funding To Biotech And Healthcare Startups Using AI Takes Off After Dip In 2023

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The new fund is just the latest example of investor excitement about healthcare- and biotech-related uses for AI. Venture funding to AI-related biotech and healthcare startups hit only $4.8 billion was raised by AI-related biotech/healthcare related startups. billion in 2023, a significant decrease from 2022.

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