TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We aim to cover a lot of food categories, but by replacing them with sustainable and nutritious ingredients.”. The firm is an investment fund focused on healthy food and sustainable agriculture, and often invests in companies that have impact and an analog to replace animal products. For example, white, spongy bread has milk proteins.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Dear Sophie, We have a stealth early-stage biotech startup. Budding Biotech. 5 ways biotech startups can mitigate risk to grow sustainably in the long run. ” In a guest post for TC+, he shares five strategies for biotech startups that are trying to stay warm through the winter ahead.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s hoped that if carbon dioxide could be converted at the point of emission, we could deal with the climate crisis a lot faster and create a sustainable carbon economy. Now Copenhagen-based biotech company SecondCircle thinks it also has a novel approach. There are a few companies trying to tackle this. It has raised $310.4

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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

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hong Kong-based drug discovery and development company Insilico has secured fresh capital at a time that its CEO described as a “biotech winter.” “Prosperity7 inspired us to look into sustainable chemistry,” said Zhavoronkov.

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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

“These are critical areas to achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture. We believe that Boost’s platform generates a unique data set that can be exploited for far superior products with many diverse microbiome applications in food and agriculture,” said Yota Hayama, an investor at UMI, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We already have several multibillion-dollar tech and biotech venture and growth funds; now is time for several multibillion-dollar climate tech funds globally. The next Jack Dorsey needs to create a new cement or other building material to create sustainable buildings. The moral imperative.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

Targeting cosmetics brands, the London-based biotech startup has scooped up a $6.2 Our vision is to break the reliance on the petroleum industry by building a new standard of packaging that is performant, cost competitive and truly sustainable,” said CEO Insiya Jafferjee, who co-founded Shellworks after spending nearly three years at Apple.

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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. EvolutionaryScale , $142M, biotech: It was a big week for biotech. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The Early Stage Pitch-Off is open to companies from around the world, consumer or enterprise and in any industry — biotech, space, mobility, impact, SaaS, hardware, sustainability and more. . Our last pitch-off had one of the most geographically diverse batches from a TC event. Apply today!

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 26, 2024

tied) Accent Therapeutics , $75M, biotech: Another week, another big biotech round. tied) LB Pharmaceuticals , $75M, biotech: Accent wasn’t the only $75 million raise this week, as we had a trio. ElevenLabs allows creators, enterprises and others to use AI software to replicate voices in dozens of languages.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ultimately, fiber is good for you, and removing it from the diet is not sustainable,” Wallach added. We discovered during fundraising that Kiwi Bio fit neither the mold of a traditional biotech company nor that of conventional consumer products, food or CPG,” Liu said. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

In January 2020, their acromegaly treatment, Octreotide, demonstrated both safety and sustained bioavailability in primary clinical trials. Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day. This will finance us for the next several years,” said Imran.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Money still coming Investors in the space — which is broad and includes several areas of sectors such as biotech, manufacturing and climate tech — agree that while there has undoubtedly been a slow down in investing, the wide breadth of deep tech and the importance of the problems it is looking to solve has kept money flowing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “It Flagship Pioneering raises $1.1

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

But bioreactors were only very recently only found in biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories and aren’t exactly designed for easy operation and customization. Reid also claims a higher level of automation for its machines — which, to be clear, are still at prototype stage. To operate it, you don’t need a Ph.D.,

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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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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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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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Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Check your eyes Usually when we talk about healthcare and AI, it relates to a biotech using the technology to refine therapeutics or help with the clinical trial process. No worries, we have you covered with what caught our eye — starting with an eye-related startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Biotech startup Shiru sprouting plant-based ingredients with new capital infusion. The total funds include backing from a Republic campaign, pre-seed investors and capital from the co-founders. In addition to the jerky and burger, the AKUA portfolio also includes Kelp Pasta.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“Most people consider the CIO to be a technology person, and they want to put them in a technology box, but technology should be only 20% of a CIO’s job,” says Hadari, who has been leading IT for the $15 billion biotech business since March 2021. It can be very challenging to create something with continuity and sustainability.”

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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

Strategic investors like DSM, one of the largest food biotech companies in Europe should help. They have all the right ingredients to become the leading choice for sustainably and efficiently produced meat.”. Early Stage is the premier ‘how-to’ event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I don’t know if this is true for all industries, but I think creating more sustainable solutions is something that we see consumer demand for as well. So when you’re dealing with something like a biotech-driven company, like a seed genetics company, for instance, of course, there’s a more scientific background there.

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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. The reasons are varying — from interest rates to regulations to valuations still being too high — but the takeaway is that deals just aren’t getting done.

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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. Finmap A cash flow management service for businesses. It raised €2.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

This prompted the question: Is there a way to design better products and more sustainable materials themselves? The startup says its goal is to provide designers and brands with the tools and materials necessary to create a sustainable future for people and the planet. And thus, the trio founded AlgiKnit in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Nature’s Fynd, which raised $350 million in a Series C round in 2021, created Fy, a vegan protein that can be used as a solid, liquid or powder to make sustainable foods, like meat and cheese. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Also participating is Backed, Presight Capital, CPT Capital and Sustainable Food Ventures. Meanwhile, Hoxton Farms’ early customers will be plant-based meat companies who seek a more sustainable and flavoursome alternative to plant oils. Hoxton Farms , a U.K. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

There are five broad sectors Ayeni said Helios Digital Ventures would be targeting: financial services, food security, talent and human capital, healthcare and sustainability. .

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