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Biotech- and healthcare-related startups led the way as those companies dominate the list, taking a vast majority of spots. DDN , $300M, data storage: Data is the big-money game right now. Aviceda Therapeutics , $208M, biotech: It may be a new year, but biotech is still raising big.
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. Leaving the $3.2
Private equity giant Blackstone Group is making a $300 million strategic investment into DDN , valuing the Chatsworth, California-based data storage company at $5 billion. In general, datacenters and data storage and management have been hot among investors as businesses of all sizes try to use their data to scale up AI initiatives.
Related reading: The Weeks Biggest Funding Rounds: Data Storage And Lots Of Biotech Illustration: Dom Guzman Also last week, Palo Alto, California-based Hippocratic AI , which develops a safety-focused large language model for healthcare, safety and accuracy, raised a $141 million Series B valuing the company at $1.6
Conventional electronic media like flash drives and hard drives require energy consumption to process a vast amount of high-density data and information overload and are vulnerable to security issues due to the limited space for storage. There is also an expensive cost issue when it comes to transmitting the stored data.
Form Energy , $405M, renewable energy: Form Energy, a renewable energy company developing and commercializing multiday energy storage systems, raised a $405 million Series F led by T. Seaport Therapeutics , $225M, biotech: Seaport Therapeutics isn’t new to this list. Rowe Price. billion in a mix of equity and grants, per Crunchbase.
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Founded in 2021 by former SpaceX Hyperloop engineers Sharma and Derek Lukacs (who serves as CTO), RedBrick AI offers specialized annotation tools that can be accessed through a web browser and integrated within customers’ existing data storage system, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Azure.
Stability AI , the venture-backed startup behind the text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion, is funding a wide-ranging effort to apply AI to the frontiers of biotech. Called OpenBioML , the endeavor’s first projects will focus on machine learning-based approaches to DNA sequencing, protein folding and computational biochemistry.
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Zenas BioPharma , $200M, biotech: Zenas BioPharma continues the trend of big biotech weeks every week. The biotech firm specializes in inflammation- and immunology-directed therapies and will use the fresh cash to support the ongoing lead product candidate, obexelimab.
Arsenal Biosciences , $325M, biotech: The big biotech raise of the week went to South San Francisco-based Arsenal Biosciences. eGenesis , $191M, biotech: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based eGenesis, a biotech firm developing human-compatible engineered organs, closed a $191 million Series D led by Lux Capital.
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While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Lightshift is a utility-scale energy storage development company and plans to use the cash infusion for its projects across public power, investor-owned utilities and large corporate consumers in the U.S.
The company — a utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platform — will use the new capital to grow its “high value project development pipeline.” tied) Accent Therapeutics , $75M, biotech: Another week, another big biotech round.
The Asheville, North Carolina-based solar and energy storage product developer plans to use the new cash to help finance the creation of three gigawatts of clean energy infrastructure in communities across the United States by next year. The Palo Alto, California-based spinout will look to grow its oncology portfolio.
Prior to joining Lyft, Umare was a senior software engineer at Amazon and a principal engineer at Oracle, where he led development of a block storage product for an infrastructure-as-a-service and bare metal offering.
Seismic Therapeutic , $121M, biotech: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Seismic Therapeutic led the way for biotechs this week — although it is far from the only biotech on this list. was announced in July — funded by Musk himself — and released an early version of its ChatGPT competitor, Grok, last month. billion set in 2021.
General Catalyst also participated in a $19 million Series B for San Francisco-based luggage storage startup Bounce. However, it still took part in some interesting rounds, co-leading a $4 million seed for San Francisco-based Anthrogen , a biotech research firm using bacteria and enzymes to reduce carbon by transforming it into chemicals.
The company — a utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platform — will use the new capital to grow its “high value project development pipeline.” In addition, the startup also has its own fleet of EV buses for districts to use. Founded in 2015, Zum has raised $350 million, per the company.
The remaining six new January unicorns hail from multiple sectors, although artificial intelligence impacts the majority of them driving advances in health, professional services, computer vision, data storage and space technology. In December, our unicorn board topped $1 trillion in collective funding raised for the first time.
The change in technology in agriculture is enabling Uknes and Ward to do something that wasn’t possible 10 years ago because there was not enough compute or storage power to discover and sequence microbes. “We While the solution would be to not do that, not doing that would mean produce doesn’t grow as well, he added.
When data collection became out of control, storage costs spiraled quickly up and new privacy regulations emerged, IT managers and their data-watching lieutenants realized that governance was quickly becoming a requirement. That requires governance of the human mind, and that’s far beyond IT security’s jurisdiction.
And then also a system where we can create enough energy and enough reliable energy, both in terms of the machines not breaking, and also not having the intermittency or the need for storage of solar or wind or something like that.
Tech has always been integral to agriculture, from the first stick used to scratch a hole in the ground to plant a seed, to plows that turn the soil and scythes to harvest wheat.
For example, a large biotech company uses CSP to manufacture devices to exact specifications by analyzing and alerting on out-of-spec resolution color imbalance. These desired outcomes beget the need for a distributed streaming storage substrate optimized for ingesting and processing streaming data in real-time. Who is affected?
The investment giant invested $500 million into Austin, Texas-based Recurrent — a utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platform. BlackRock topped the list for rounds led or co-led with the highest dollar amounts for January thanks to its Recurrent Energy deal.
Over the last decade, Cambridge, MA has become a mecca for startups and biotech companies. Drawing in the recent graduates from neighboring universities such as Harvard and MIT, these companies are competing for the brightest young talent. Draper is no exception.
There are about 30,000 genes in the human body, so this research requires vast amounts of data to be captured and processed; it requires huge storage capacity, and sophisticated AI tools to analyse the data. This is especially true in biotech because it is such a deep and complicated subject.
In 2021 Flexagon worked with organizations around the globe from high tech to biotech, from manufacturing to retail and many more, in both private and public sectors. The 4 Anchors of the FlexDeploy Roadmap . Value Stream Management . The benefits of VSM are enabled by the delivery platform capabilities of FlexDeploy.
Sample data storage and exchange. Storage management. It comes in desktop and cloud versions and is suitable for research activities in pharmaceuticals, biotech, clinical sciences, food science, chemistry, materials, and for CROs. The successful transfer of data files is a pivotal aspect of the modern LIMS. Biospecimen shipping.
As we’ve highlighted earlier, biotech and finance typically pay higher salaries than, for instance, legal services or entertainment. Mastery of the emerging tools (Hugging Face, LangChain) requires programming, data engineering, and traditional AI skills that increase the earning potential of prompt engineers. Industry and location.
In this way, pharmaceutical or biotech companies can analyze, classify, and find new potential drug targets and applications. machine learning , allowing for analyzing the knowledge contained in the source data and generating new knowledge. You might have noticed that here we used such words as “nodes” and “triples.”
Stämm Biotech raises $17M : Have you heard of bioreactors? Also, the group has purchased Robin.io, which TechCrunch describes as a “startup that offers a Kubernetes platform optimized for storage solutions and complex network applications.”. They are new to me, but are apparently a key piece of kit in the biomanufacturing world.
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In the ‘90s a new generation of Bay State startups started focusing on areas like chips, storage and memory. She also mentioned robotics, green technologies and what she calls bio-convergence, a cross pollination between robotics and biotech. “If
Khosla said that a good analogy was biotech/pharma investing, where it takes 10-15 years from concept to a drug approved on market. As Mateo Jaramillo, a former Tesla VP and now CEO of Form Energy , explained , “[Energy storage can be a] new asset class to invest in, like coal or natural gas.” Things are already in motion.
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