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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Data Storage And Lots Of Biotech

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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.

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

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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

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DDN Nabs $300M From Blackstone As AI Keeps Data Storage Hot

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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.

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Qventus Latest Healthcare AI Startup To Raise Big

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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

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DNA-based data storage platform Catalog raises $35M

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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.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of October: OpenAI’s Massive Deal Dwarfs All Others

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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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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Infinite Reality Tops Busy Month

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Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. tied) Retro Biosciences , $1B, biotech: AI can do a lot startup Retro Biosciences thinks it can even help us live longer. tied) DDN , $300M, data storage: Data is the big-money game right now.

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