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. However, the city’s tech scene is apparently lackluster when it comes to legal tech, blockchain and consumer-facing technology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Mandich explained that his epiphany came while reading a Wired article that reported on how keeping honey bees in bee hives was actually killing the 20,000 wild and native bee species due to the loss of a diversity in the bee population. What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space.

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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

MAY 17, 2021

While Madrid and Barcelona tend to attract the buzz when it comes to tech startups in Spain, Valencia is slowly and surely making a name for itself as a growing tech ecosystem. The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR.

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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. However, chipmakers also have caused a stir due to some of the big cash they’ve raised — or are about to raise. But there just haven’t been a lot.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 6, 2024

The uptick in the portion of startup investment going to female-founded companies — up from 15% in 2022 — was in large part due to a number of billion-dollar-plus rounds raised by AI companies with a female co-founder. That year saw healthcare and biotech as the leading sector, with $20 billion invested in companies with a female founder.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Funding to startups working on water purification- and conservation-related technologies has not dried up in recent quarters, even amid a broad global contraction in venture investment. Groundwater supplies worldwide are under serious threat due to population growth, industrial development, overuse, climate change and poor water management.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

McCloskey thinks that Nanome’s platform has become even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, as researchers might be forced to work remotely on occasion, limiting their access to in-lab technology and software. Nanome helps scientists get on the same page quicker,” he wrote in an email.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

To do this, the Berlin-based company starts with a single “one-time” fish biopsy (the fish doesn’t have to be killed for this), and then uses stem cell technology to develop full cell lines (fish species) in a lab setting. So it’s clear there is a real push toward creating sustainable “synthetic” seafood.

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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. The exit value is what drives it all.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But if you focus and leave your preconceptions behind, you’ll find that beyond the skein of valuations and share prices, there is a world of spirited dealmaking, ripe with impetus for building a sustainable industry. How has your approach to the psychedelics sector changed since our previous psychedelics survey a year ago ?

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Mills Scofield

MAY 20, 2013

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Today, the changed funding landscape and uncertain global economic outlook pose new challenges for space operators looking to turn their innovative technologies and concepts into sustainable businesses. Nothing drives tech innovation like sex. Tech Driven Biology and Chemistry: Solving Science’s Hardest Problems at Scale .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key. A genomewide association study found 566 “genes of interest,” and to investigate each costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $40,000 due to the time, staff and materials required. He gave the example of a cold-tolerant rice strain that one company was working on.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Traditionally in our holiday-themed blogs, we look at all types of technology: from gift-bearing drones and healthy tech habits to century-old history of travel tech. Yet this year we don’t want to spread ourselves too thin, because we want to acknowledge one area of technology that impacts our lives in so many different ways.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 28, 2024

Embark Trucks While it’s not one of the more famous SPAC flameouts, we’ve long been intrigued by the story of Embark Trucks , a developer of autonomous trucking technology, which went from a $5 billion-plus initial public valuation to bust in 16 months. Thus, its protracted decline was not due to its missing financial projections.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And producing more sustainable femcare products — which is important given how much environmental harm and polluting plastic waste is generated as a result of mainstream period care products — that also raise the bar on convenience, such as with features like its tampon’s biodegradable, flushable wrappers.

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