TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Stelo Labs , a web3 security company, raised $6 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Both have backgrounds in product management — Scharfstein worked at Google, and Dhesi held roles at Facebook, DoorDash and Square. But in web3, the responsibility often falls on the user.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

million for her new startup, Daylight Labs, SEC filings show. Daylight Labs will be creating a solution to help gig economy workers make more money, Sun hints to TechCrunch. We’re innovating on the actual format and product.”. At Facebook, Sun worked on the company’s Stories product as a product manager.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Green Labs , a Seoul-based agritech startup, has secured $38.4 Green Labs, which raked in $140 million in a Series C in January 2022, ran out of money as it overstretched its expansion, TechCrunch reported last month. Green Labs purchases agriculture products from farmers and sells them to buyers/B2B partners with outstanding invoices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Uniswap Labs has raised $165 million in a new funding round as the parent firm of the world’s largest decentralized exchange looks to broaden its offerings. The news confirms a TechCrunch scoop from late last month that said that Uniswap Labs was looking to raise between $100 million to $200 million and was engaging with Polychain.

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JUNE 28, 2023

“As a result, we’ve found it imperative to foster greater agility and flexibility in our new product development process while maintaining high standards of efficiency, safety, and product quality.” Its brands include ésika, L’Bel, and Cyzone, and its products range from skincare and makeup to fragrances.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

According to a survey by John Snow Labs, 60% of tech leaders’ budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020. Today, AI21 Labs closed a $64 million Series B round that values the company at $664 million. AI21 Labs offers a range of tuning parameters to customize the output of its models.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PepsiCo is also working with UBQ Materials to turn unsorted household waste into a bio-based thermoplastic that’s used in product display stands. It’s a similar story at Audi, where the automotive giant has established a Production Lab to find innovations that can help boost efficiency and quality across the company’s plants.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Green Labs , a South Korean agtech startup that raised $140 million (170 billion won) Series C in January last year, is cutting a significant number of jobs. Green Labs, which now has over 650 employees, is laying off some of its workers as part of a restructuring after doubling employees following its Series C funding.

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JUNE 22, 2023

The new program will connect AWS AI and machine learning (ML) experts with enterprises to help them envision, design, and launch new generative AI products, services, and processes, the company said, adding that these applications can be targeted at industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services among others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. It’s both a lot of very early-stage, but some established ones that are looking for that sort of place where they can come test and build on the newest, latest equipment, connect with investors and connect with talent to scale up product sales.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

But now a Athens, Greece startup Harbor Lab has come up with a solution. Harbor Lab was born out of a real time need to automate the processing of disbursements (payments to port authorities and other port related suppliers) while reducing manual intervention and heavy administration. Habor Lab launched March 2020.

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APRIL 15, 2022

Uniswap Labs , a company building upon the decentralized protocol Uniswap, aims to do just that. Uniswap Labs COO Mary-Catherine Lader. Image Credits: Uniswap Labs. That means major players in the space must make improvements regarding ease and accessibility for the non-crypto natives who want to use crypto.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s part of why Bryant led Harlem Capital’s investment into Glow Labs, a white-label software that allows companies and creators to build their own loyalty rewards programs on the blockchain, he said. Reardon and Russo now serve as co-CEOs of Glow Labs, Russo told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

The four-year-old digital verification upstart has received less than $500,000 in venture capital funding since its inception as well as $450,000 in grant money from DFS Lab through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Google’s launchpad studio accelerator , and others.) We have product depth in Nigeria already.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The past two-and-a-half years have been a roller-coaster ride for the founders of VAE Labs , but today the pre-revenue CPG company has some good news: a $2 million seed round that will help boost its sprayable caffeine device into the commercial market. The new capital gives VAE Labs an $8.5 The new capital gives VAE Labs an $8.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But when an idea originates in a lab — whether it’s AI, biotech, robotics or another deep tech research project — things quickly become tougher and much more expensive. It’s one thing to build a prototype that works in a controlled lab setting. Buy an early-bird founder ticket now and save $200.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Lightning Labs brought in $10 million from its Series A last September after its $2.5 million seed round in 2018 , bringing its total raised to $82.5

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

It became Twelve Labs , which went on to raise $17 million in venture capital — $12 million of which came from a seed extension round that closed today. A demo of the Twelve Labs platform’s capabilities. Image Credits: Twelve Labs. Image Credits: Twelve Labs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

In particular, the company is focusing on poultry and aims to convince chefs that they should use the company’s products in their restaurants. Gourmey is part of a group of startups that want to create meat alternatives and turn them into mass-market products. Gourmey is the first French startup working on lab-grown meat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. Without the necessary lab space in Chicago, it was forced to head to Boston. It’s not just about a building with lab benches.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Salt Labs, a rewards platform for hourly workers, today emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Fin Capital with participation from Anthem Venture Partners and others. “The mission of Salt Labs is to enable hourly workers to own the long-term value of their work,” Lee said via email.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Rocket Lab is the latest, and likely the most notable to jump on the trend, with a deal that will see it combine with a SPAC called Vector and subsequently list on the Nasdaq under the ticker RKLB, with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of this year. Rocket Lab has performed launches on behalf of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Astera Labs , a fabless semiconductor company that builds connectivity solutions that help remove bottlenecks around high-bandwidth applications and help better allocate resources around enterprise data, has raised $50 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Turning academic AI research into products is brutal. If you want to 10x the challenge, though, it would be to take that research and the fun prototypes that come out of the lab and turn it into a commercially viable company. If you thought turning academic research into robots is challenging, you’d be right.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

It’s a long road taking an idea from the R&D stage in a lab to successful commercialization, especially when you’re talking about technologies as complex and costly as robotics and artificial intelligence. At Tesla, Werner led the new product introduction team and helped launch the Model S powertrain and Model X.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. Image Credits: AaBeZe Labs/IRL. Image Credits: AaBeZe Labs/IRL. Image Credits: Daybreak by AaBeZe Labs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Silicon Valley was once one of the most productive regions in the country for the defense industry, churning out chips and technologies that helped the United States overtake the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Vannevar Labs comes out of stealth to bring best-in-class AI tech to national security agencies. Photo via Vannevar Labs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Good Meat announced today it has received regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency to use serum-free media for the production of its cultivated meat. Its lab-grown chicken is currently available in Singapore, where Eat Just gained regulatory approval to sell its lab-grown chicken meat in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high-end meats in a lab have investors lining up for a seat at the company’s cap table. This Y Combinator startup is taking lab-grown meat upscale with elk, lamb and Wagyu beef cell lines. Lab-grown meat is the future, and Orbillion Bio is already paving the way.” .

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Will we make room on our plates for lab-cultured meat or pour frosty mugs of genetically modified beer? Can the company find ways to slash emissions from other fermented products? Achieving that goal will require changing the way we think and act about sustainability.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup’s initial missions. Image Credits: Rocket Lab (opens in a new window). Each mission will last roughly three months from launch to landing, Rocket Lab said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Meat has been part of the human diet since before we found fire, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the production of meat at scale is more of a detriment to the environment and the world than a benefit. Also known as cultivated or lab-grown meat, this process uses cells from animals to make meat without slaughter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The company has been working on cultivated meat, and more specifically lab-grown foie gras. It is part of a new wave of companies that want to turn cell-cultured meat products into mainstream products. But you won’t find Gourmey’s product in a supermarket just yet. In total, the company banked $48 million (€48 million).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

WayRay Labs — Laser Lab slide. WayRay Labs — Holography Lab slide. WayRay Labs — Experimental production slide. WayRay Labs — PCB assembly facility slide. WayRay Labs — Test lab slide. WayRay Labs — CNC workshop slide. WayRay Labs — Metrology equipment slide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It was only in June last year when we reported how Immersive Labs , a platform that teaches cybersecurity skills to employees in a “gamified” way, had closed a $75 million Series C funding round. As of today, the company just pulled in another $66 Million, taking the total raised to $189 million. National Health Service.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Since their Series B, Genies has leaned more deeply into the web3 craze, debuting an NFT storefront with NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs. eth) handles to build out a network of NFT-based avatar identity products. Crypto gaming giant Dapper Labs takes its next shot with Genies NFT platform ‘The Warehouse’

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The dinner was a coming out party for Orbillion Bio , a new startup pitching today in Y Combinator’s latest demo day, that’s looking to take lab-grown meats from the supermarket to high-end, bespoke butcher shops. It was preparation for her foray into lab-grown meat, she said. “We are a product company.

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