Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based firm did not disclose investor names, instead saying it came from a private investor whose portfolio focuses on global technology and real estate investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Now, certain industries are emerging as potential areas where New Zealand can win in the tech space. Deep tech, medtech/biotech, climate tech, and crypto and blockchain are all areas that investors say they’re either actively investing in or watching for signs of scale. New Zealanders make really good founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Other investors felt that a broader range of industries, like fintech and biotech, would eventually produce the biggest companies in the country. Zoomin Software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription Before Silicon Valley Bank crashed, I asked seven VCs about the startups they’re interested in backing right now, how they prefer to be approached and whether they could share any tips for first-time founders. “The

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 21, 2025

Nerdio , $500M, information technology: IT professionals are stretched pretty thin these days, so it makes sense that a company that helps automate some of their work could raise big. Latigo Biotherapeutics , $150M, biotech: Many patients shy away from taking opioids while many doctors are reluctant to prescribe the painkillers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and e ach day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. ” All the companies from Y Combinator’s W20 Demo Day, Part IV: Healthcare, Biotech, Fintech and Nonprofits. Ghansah is a serial entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Not only does the software help sort and analyze ultrasound images to help doctors diagnose cardiovascular disease, but it also streamlines the workflow by generating patient reports for doctors that can then be added to a patient’s health record. Having more tech talent on board will help HeartLab advance its product offering.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

He believes that the tech ecosystem has matured quite a lot in France over the past ten years. France could become a leading market when it comes to sustainability-focused and impact startups due to local and European regulation, innovation and talent looking for opportunities in this ecosystem.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. As the technology exhausts its honeymoon period, and companies in all industries find new ways of using it to get ahead of the competition, a new race is on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

It speaks to the speed with which genetics has permeated our lives, but despite massive improvements to the technology, the process can still be a bit clunky in the lab. Before you can even start to disentangle someone’s genetic code, you have to start with a sample. The fourth company is a biotech firm interested in synthetic biology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“InstaDeep happened to be quite different from other companies in our pipeline as they were actually into deep tech versus applying technology to a certain sector, where basically, you become an operator in that sector. And it was also interesting, especially in Africa, where such companies are quite rare.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. That, at least, is the pitch Code Ocean offers for its platform and “Compute Capsules.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

These near-invisible bits of code are typically embedded in web pages to share information about users’ activity, often for analytics. Cerebral said these trackers inadvertently collected sensitive user data since it began operating in October 2019. In its disclosure to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. For instance, some papers argue, the manual review of samples doesn’t often add much to doctors’ diagnostic dataset. Think of this like support software that helps a hematologist distinguish between cell types.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Research on psychedelics was stalled for decades due to DEA scheduling, but capabilities in the fields of pharmacology and medicinal chemistry advanced significantly during this “dark age.” Most ancillary services and technology will not take off until drugs commercialize, so we see few near-term opportunities in other verticals anyway.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

He puts his tally for the number of applications he’s reviewed in the “tens of thousands.” What I’m looking for is technical excellence on the team,” Caldwell said. If anyone can answer that, it’s Dalton Caldwell, managing director and group partner for YC. They tend to get ripped off.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation, and with nearly 2,500 startups, it has the highest number of budding tech companies outside London. Use discount code SCOTLANDSURVEY to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

There are any number of seed rounds that cross our desks every day, a never-ending march of enterprise software, consumer apps, games, hardware, biotech and sometimes even a space startup. But amid the regular flow of funding news, it’s still rare to come across a company raising money to take on addiction with software.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

For perspective, we charted investment totals, color-coded by stage, for the past 11 quarters below. While the IPO market wasn’t especially active, we did see a handful of public offerings, predominantly in the biotech sector. billion went to late-stage and technology growth deals in Q3 of 2024. A total of $23.8

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 5, 2024

Biotech took center stage, notching three of the top four rounds. Obsidian Therapeutics , $161M, biotech: It was another big week for biotech startups raising huge sums of cash. It also included a $50 million investment from advertising software firm AppLovin. This week, Obsidian Therapeutics leads the way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed. These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer. ” For Meatable right now, price remains an issue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Despite advances in software to help model these compounds and molecules, there are still challenges in fully understanding their shapes through a two-dimensional computer screen. San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem. Nanome helps scientists get on the same page quicker,” he wrote in an email.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

OK, with that, here’s what I think will happen next year: the return to in-person, five-day work weeks for tech workers. Then, this year, the Great Resignation became the Great Reset, as employers fired large percentages of their staff due to changing macroeconomic conditions. The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The world’s labs are under pressure to do more tests and process more materials, not just due to COVID but from the growing biotech and drug development sectors — and automation is the sure path forwards. To that end Automata has been investing in the software to manage and administer its labware and robots.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Healthvana , a health tech startup that began with a specific focus on providing patient information digitally for individuals living with HIV, is helping Los Angeles County roll out mobile vaccination records for COVID-19 using Apple’s Wallet technology. “We look and feel like Instagram.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 18, 2024

Those with disclosed investments include a number bringing AI-enabled tools to sectors like legal tech, recruiting, code development and medical recordkeeping. San Francisco is experiencing a resurgence due to AI , which is borne out by Crunchbase data. This allows for front loading due diligence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Serial Kenyan tech entrepreneur Mike Macharia has spent the last two decades helping enterprises like East Africa’s biggest telco Safaricom to create infrastructure that bolsters their growth. But I had never thought of building tech for us (the masses). CarePoint raises $10M to spread healthcare tech across Africa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

While Amsterdam garners the lion’s share of attention in the Netherlands tech ecosystem, the not-so-far-away region around Utrecht has its fair share of tech startups and investors, as is evidenced by our latest survey of locals, below. What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? Utrecht is a bit lagging.”

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Crunchbase News

JULY 9, 2024

Automated driving company Wayve , data preparation company Scale AI and AI biotech company Xaira Therapeutics each raised billion-dollar rounds. Healthcare and biotech was the second-largest sector, raising $17 billion. Hardware companies — in large part due to AI infrastructure and semiconductor fundings — raised $11 billion.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In busier years for tech IPOs, the week after Labor Day is a brisk period for roadshows by companies looking to make an autumn market debut. None of the hot venture-backed tech companies seen as likely IPO prospects filed to go public in August. A number of biotechs also carried out IPOs.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 2, 2024

Then, late last year, Cruise suspended its self-driving taxi program across the country after losing its permit to operate in San Francisco due to an incident with a pedestrian. Formation Bio , $372M, biotech: Formation Bio, an AI-enhanced pharma company, raised a $372 million Series D led by a16z. billion, per Crunchbase.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

For software companies acquired for a billion dollars or more, private equity acquired the majority this year to date. billion, and London-based Hg ’s $3 billion acquisition of legal and compliance tech startup AuditBoard , based in Cerritos, California. And had artificial intelligence startups Inflection AI , Character.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

How to Disrupt Any Industry with Longevity Science: No PhD Required , with FOXO Technologies. Finding True Love in Tech Partnerships: The Dos and Don’ts , with Mambu. Tech Driven Biology and Chemistry: Solving Science’s Hardest Problems at Scale , with Amazon Web Services. Trust as the New Currency in Tech , with Egon Zehnder.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The firm didnt take part in a ton of big rounds either last month, although it did lead a $40 million seed round for Zarminali Health , a Chicago-based hybrid care startup that integrates specialists, tech and services to provide coordinated outpatient pediatric primary and specialty care. However, a16z was far from done with big-money deals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Taken together, the data sets used to train algorithms are, in general, smaller than they should be, according to one meta-review of 152 studies published in the BMJ. Technology alone can’t solve all these issues; you can’t sort or provide data that isn’t there in the first place. A screenshot of Gesund’s validation platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. There’s a lot of optimism that technology can still create real solutions that can drive real value creation. You asked me for some categories?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Koneksa has developed a software suite that works with a variety of devices, from portable spirometers to iPhones and Apple Watches. These devices capture data, from which software gleans clinically useful signals and organizes them for review by drug companies or healthcare providers running clinical trials. “The

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