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Forecast: 13 Companies That Could Go Public In 2025 If The IPO Market Gains Steam

Crunchbase News

Although 2024 was another exceptionally lackluster year for new public offerings, the IPO market could gain momentum in 2025 after its three-year lull. With that in mind, here are 13 companies that the Crunchbase News team thinks could be top contenders to go public if our 2025 market forecast bears out. That made sense.

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Do we need so many virtual HQ platforms?

TechCrunch

million seed f or its virtual HQ platform. Teamflow’s virtual HQ platform. Gather’s virtual HQ platform. Crivello is clear about his vision for the startup: He wants to make it harder to move out of a virtual office than a physical office. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day

TechCrunch

In 2020, SkyDeck — along with much of the rest of the world — went virtual. We are also hearing chatter that Demo Day will be larger than ever before because virtual events are much more scalable.”. Notable alumni include micromobility unicorn, Lime, and delivery robotics firm, Kiwi.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Big Week For Biotech As Tome Raises $213M

Crunchbase News

The week was especially good for biotech, which led the way with two big raises. Tome Biosciences , $213M, biotech: A big biotech raise hit high on the list this week. Bicara Therapeutics , $165M, biotech: If Bicara Therapeutics looks familiar, it’s because this isn’t its first time on this list.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI And Anthropic Headline Big Week For AI (Again)

Crunchbase News

The IT infrastructure company will use the fresh cash for M&A activities and entering new markets globally. Enveda Biosciences , $130M, biotech: It was just in June that Enveda Biosciences first landed on this list, after raising a $55 million round that included Microsoft as an investor.

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African genomics startup 54gene lays off 95 as COVID testing business struggles

TechCrunch

Founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong, the three-year-old startup seeks to address the gap in the global genomics market where less than 3% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is African. A company’s spokesperson confirmed the news after several sources informed TechCrunch of the layoffs last week.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Seed-stage basics, SaaS marketing live chat, Zoom’s Five9 buy

TechCrunch

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. In addition to their work with individual companies, they also run founder workshops, a job board and a marketer-led syndicate. In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key. I hope you have a great week. Walter Thompson.

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