TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, it wasn’t just AI that got funding in September, as biotech makes up about half the list. Candid Therapeutics , $370M, biotech: The biggest biotech raise of the month went to Candid Therapeutics. Arsenal Biosciences , $325M, biotech: South San Francisco-based Arsenal Biosciences had the next biggest biotech raise.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In tandem, a large cohort of startups have scaled up over the past few years with offerings aimed at slowing, sustaining or even shaving years off biological age. That’s because many of the companies working on biotech breakthroughs that could increase lifespans don’t pitch themselves as longevity startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

UMI’s decision to invest in Boost comes from our evaluation of their team, technology, and the associated market opportunities. “These are critical areas to achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture. Boost is already working with an undisclosed biomanufacturing partner to develop its bio-fungicide.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Ayeni has a similar function at Helios Digital Ventures: to spot and back disruptive startups in frontier markets, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. . What we’re trying to do from a strategy perspective is to say what sectors are large enough from an addressable market point of view and affect or impact the mass market.”.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Formation Bio , $372M, biotech: Every week there is a big biotech raise and this week’s is really big. More and more biotech startups are using AI to help with their drug processes and investors are clearly taking note. Sidecar Health believes a free-market approach will ensure healthcare is more accessible and affordable.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 12, 2024

After a quiet holiday week, investors were back in action dishing out big rounds to startups in robotics, biotech, healthcare and more. Element Biosciences , $277M, biotech: It’s hard to get through a week without a big biotech raise, and this one’s no different. based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Resilience’s founders identified problems in the therapeutic manufacturing process as one of the key problems that the industry faces in bringing new treatments to market — and that hurdle is exactly what the company was founded to overcome. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “It

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The venture market was down 38% last year as investors continued to reel back their funding with money becoming more expensive and liquidity options drying up. With its cash-intensive research and long product-to-market lead time, it usually is not attractive to investors in a down market where cash is king.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. But if this 2017-founded Finnish startup, Solar Foods , has its way fermentation could have a very special place in the future of human food too.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Every company wants to increase revenue and find new revenue streams, so clearly FTV sees a growing market for the Denver-based startup’s platform. tied) Accent Therapeutics , $75M, biotech: Another week, another big biotech round. Founded in 2012, the company has now raised $104 million, per Crunchbase.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Large fundings were also raised by several deeptech and energy sustainability companies: electric vehicle developer Hozon ; solar provider Pine Gate Renewables ; and quantum computing company PsiQuantum. Top sectors Biotech and healthcare was the leading sector by funding amount in April. Companies in that space raised $5.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The global meat substitute market was valued at $4.51 Growing up with a father who was a food marketer, Boyd Myers said she saw firsthand what eating a diet of fast-food can do to a person and was always looking for more healthy food options that also had a positive benefit for the planet. AKUA co-founder and CEO Courtney Boyd Myers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The process involves synthetic biology, deep learning and genomics tools that produce fats that are more sustainable than the current oils, like coconut, that are used in plant proteins, but also mimic animal-based analogs in terms of flavor and texture, CEO Yulin Lu told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To examine the market forces and psychology driving climate tech, we surveyed an international group of investors to learn about how they evaluate new opportunities and what they’re looking for from the entrepreneurs who approach them. We’re constructive around things like voluntary carbon markets. I think it varies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Louis, Missouri-based venture capital firm soon after completing high school, 23-year-old Williams has backed dozens of companies — with a special interest in agtech and biotech and including a couple of very large tech companies that he’s not at liberty to mention. An early win we had was with Agrible and its sale to Nutrien.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Indeed, two of the best funded companies in the lab-grown meat market hail from The Netherlands, where Mosa Meat is being challenged by a newer upstart, Meatable , which just announced $47 million in new financing. Strategic investors like DSM, one of the largest food biotech companies in Europe should help.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Our survey respondents think the ecosystem is strong in sustainable energy, medtech, food tech, life sciences, marketplaces, deep tech, gaming and media. The investment scene is described variously as focusing on software, clean tech, life sciences, biotech, organoids, 3D bioprinting, AI and VR/AR. Utrecht is a bit lagging.”

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Crunchbase News

JULY 24, 2024

Sure, there are some, including two $3 billion deals in Q2: Merck buying privately held biotech EyeBiotech for as much as $3 billion, and Hg buying AuditBoard for more than $3 billion. While valuations have come down, apparently it has not been enough for buyers in the market. But there just haven’t been a lot.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Markets: 39 new countries (169 in total). It raised €2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Sales of plant-based alternatives, like dairy and meat, are surging in the global market , and Perfeggt wants to do the same for the egg. Backers in the round include EVIG Group, Stray Dog Capital, E2JDJ, Tet Ventures, Good Seed Ventures, Sustainable Food Ventures and Shio Capital. Today, the company announced it raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s been a big two years for biotech investors. But I think more of it is that some major theses in the markets are being proven out,” he says. . This new approach, ideally, would help the market pivot away from sunscreens that have been shown to harm the environment, particularly coral reefs and other marine life. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

We want to change the food industry in a way that we make food sustainable, nutritious and deliver it at no cost to our dearest animals, in our case, the bees,” he told TechCrunch. MeliBio will produce honey in three shifts, 365 days per year and make it a price parody with honey on the market.”.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 6, 2024

It is important to support female founders early to ensure a balanced and sustained increase across all funding stages,” she added. That year saw healthcare and biotech as the leading sector, with $20 billion invested in companies with a female founder. In 2021, close to $48 billion was invested — marking 14% of U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We want to create a sustainable and humane process that delivers the same flavors, smell and experience in an affordable and accessible way,” he told TechCrunch. He expects to be able to go to market in 2022, pending approval from the U.S. He also sees demand for products coming from markets that eat a lot of pork, like Asia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The vegan food market was pegged as a $27 billion industry last year , a figure that’s expected to more than double within a decade. The company will also need to go through regulatory approval processes in its target markets, including Novel Food in the EU and GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe) in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Jauhari added that key trends emerging in Asian health tech include large-scale adoption of digital platforms in markets like India, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam and specialty care growing by taking a “phygital” approach through a combination of brick-and-mortar locations and online platforms.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Munich-based QOA is gearing up to be among the first to bring a chocolate product to market that is 100% cocoa free. We love chocolate, however, we realized that there are some sustainability risks and wanted to do something about it so we can still have it in the future.”.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Taking on big problems The biggest rounds go to companies taking on extremely large problems, commonly tapping global markets from the start. Among the biggest recipients on our list is Boston-based Gradiant , a sustainability-oriented startup focused on wastewater treatment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Bluu Seafood , a German company developing “lab-grown” fish, is showcasing its first finished products as it prepares to begin the regulatory approval process for key markets in Asia, Europe and North America. So it’s clear there is a real push toward creating sustainable “synthetic” seafood.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While countless companies are developing alternative and more sustainable ways for humans to get their protein fixes such as through lab-grown meat , others are tackling the underlying problem from a different angle by exploring new ways of fostering the traditional meat and fish populace through insect protein. InnovaFeed at work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s worth acknowledging that there is a sizeable element of marketing magicianship to this announcement. But at the same time, it’s also a promotional campaign for cultured meat in general, and the role it could play in creating a sustainable protein source that doesn’t involve killing animals.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The number of deals with announced deal sizes also increased slightly from 10 in 2023 to 11 in 2024, highlighting sustained interest and confidence in these transactions. This suggests that while global interest remains strong, Israeli firms are increasingly consolidating within their own market to strengthen their competitive positions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

Ashkenazi Otmazgin expects these products to hit the market in 2023. She also claims the market potential for functional ingredients is huge, about $22 billion per year. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? Helping to accelerate the products is a new $3.2 million seed round that was closed in January.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Cityblock Health is focused on providing affordable, human-centered healthcare in lower-income and marginalized communities, while also building sustainable business models. So, yes, I would have designed it differently and I’m also not content to b h and moan about it. We’ve got to do something.”.

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