Crunchbase News

MARCH 8, 2024

However, this week it was clearly biotech leading the way, with three startups from the sector nabbing spots in the top five. Alumis , $259M, biotech: This week saw the biggest biotech raise of the year thus far. While this was the biggest biotech raise of the week, it is by no means the only one on this list.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

Pika , $80M, artificial intelligence: It never takes us long to get to an AI startup on this list. Pika, an artificial intelligence startup that generates video, raised an $80 million round led by Spark Capital that values the Palo Alto, California-based company at $470 million, per Bloomberg.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The week was especially good for biotech, which led the way with two big raises. Tome Biosciences , $213M, biotech: A big biotech raise hit high on the list this week. Bicara Therapeutics , $165M, biotech: If Bicara Therapeutics looks familiar, it’s because this isn’t its first time on this list.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in clinical diagnosis. But researchers need much of their initial time preparing data for training AI systems. “We see ourselves building the foundational layer of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

technology, machine learning, hardware, software — and yes, lasers! Founded by a team whose backgrounds include physics, stem cell biology, and machine learning, Cellino operates in the regenerative medicine industry. — could eventually democratize access to cell therapies.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The best uses of generative AI are linguistic in nature,” says Richard Sonnenblick, the company’s chief data scientist. And software code is a language.” They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests. About a year ago, LLMs were developed for creating proteins,” says Castillo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

AI and proteins have been in the news lately, but largely because of the efforts of research outfits like DeepMind and Baker Lab. Their machine learning models take in easily collected RNA sequence data and predict the structure a protein will take — a step that used to take weeks and expensive special equipment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key. In that same body of data relating to cold-tolerant rice, “We found 32 genes of interest, and based on our simulations and retrospective studies, we know that all of those are truly causal. The Avalo model clears up the data and selects only the most promising ones.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Suggestions like “listen to your customers” and “make data-driven decisions” are so general, they’re hard to implement. “While excessive or unhelpful customer data can clog content pipelines, the right information can power hyper-personalization at scale,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

That’s exactly what’s happening in health tech right now, as the sector benefits not only from the rise of open data, but also from the democratization of data analytics and privacy-preserving synthetic data. Data for health tech builders. You wouldn’t be wrong to think open data is cool in itself.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. This presents an opportunity for Insilico Medicine to emerge as a winner during the biotech spring.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The software Form Bio developed is meant to bring a suite of workflow solutions to the computational biology space, which uses data and modeling to understand biological systems and includes sectors like gene therapy and biotech.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Not exactly sure what was in the water this week, but AI and biotech led the way as happens often. Lambda , $320M, artificial intelligence: In a big week, this was the biggest round. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million. “I hope it doesn’t sound corny, but we don’t have the luxury to move more slowly,” explained Immunai co-founder and CEO Noam Solomon in an interview.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The appetite for genomic data continues to rise in the field of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but cost is still a factor — even sequencing a full genome now costs as little as $1,000. I asked Almogy what he felt were the areas of the biotech and medical industry that will benefit most from this new capability.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2024

We Shared Our Client’s Vision For a Smarter, Faster Way of Working Our client needed a solution that could integrate disparate data sources seamlessly into a robust and intuitive environment. An inefficient system wastes time and resources, can diminish morale, and ultimately hinders efforts to bring life-saving drugs to market.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 26, 2022

?. It’s no secret that advancements like AI and machine learning (ML) can have a major impact on business operations. Data practitioners are at the top of the list of employees who are now able to put more focus on innovation. . What are AMPs and why do they help? The answer is a resounding no.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC) , global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 2, 2024

April also saw a half-dozen rounds of a quarter-billion dollars or more, including a $1 billion round for an AI-enhanced biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round in April was really big. Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 Let’s take a look. billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 17, 2024

Once again, biotech made up nearly a third of the list while some other sectors that don’t usually make the list — developer platform and analytics — were represented. Uniquity Bio , $300M, biotech: It has become pretty much the norm to start off these lists with a big biotech raise. billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

X.AI , $135M, artificial intelligence: You may have heard Elon Musk has an artificial intelligence startup to compete with OpenAI. 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.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 19, 2024

Metsera , $290M, biotech: This week was a slower week than normal for biotech — as it was for most sectors — but that didn’t stop New York-based Metsera. The company develops power-optimized chips targeting the data analytics and generative AI markets. In fact, it only took raising about $30 million-plus to make the list.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 31, 2024

xAI , $6B, artificial intelligence: Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI, officially announced its long-awaited fundraise — making it the second-most-valuable generative AI company in the world behind only competitor OpenAI. Grok is trained off data from another Musk-owned company, X, formerly Twitter. just earlier this year.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 29, 2024

While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Let’s see if April can continue the trend of a growing amount of large raises. This March certainly did not go out like a lamb, with seven rounds hitting $100 million or more in the final week.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Genomic data is considered to be the key to unlocking so-called “precision medicine” Some estimates suggest that by 2025, 500 million human genomes will have been sequenced, but only a fraction of it is being utilized for drug discovery and precision medicine. Privacy issues are regularly raised around genomic data.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence was big in 2023 — and that could be the understatement of the year. Per Crunchbase data , there were eight deals of at least a half-billion dollars or more consummated this year involving AI startups. billion — the biggest M&A transaction of the year by a VC-backed company, per Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies. “We provide customers with exhaustive predictive models combining genetics and computational biology in order to design and select the top candidates to be tested in the lab.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Digital biomarkers, collected from wearable sensors or through a device, offer healthcare providers an abundance of traditional and new data to precisely monitor and even predict a patient’s disease trajectory.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

While companies find AI’s predictive power alluring, particularly on the data analytics side of the organization, achieving meaningful results with AI often proves to be a challenge. But implementing and maintaining the data pipelines necessary to keep AI systems from drifting to inaccuracy can require substantial technical resources.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Years before he co-launched a stealthy business to fix the messy world of health data, Gaurav Kaushik was slowly connecting the dots on how better visualization could impact health outcomes. Now, ScienceIO is not the first startup to try to fix healthcare data. ” Can API vendors solve healthcare’s data woes?

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2024

Founded in 1991, the Fortnite creator has raised nearly $8 billion to date, according to Crunchbase data. Figure , $675M, artificial intelligence: Sunnyvale, California-based Figure last week confirmed earlier reports that it had raised a huge $675 million round at a $2.6 billion valuation. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Seqera Labs , a Barcelona-based data orchestration and workflow platform tailored to help scientists and engineers order and gain insights from cloud-based genomic data troves, as well as to tackle other life science applications that involve harnessing complex data from multiple locations, has raised $5.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition to biotech, Russek felt there also needed to be software and automation components. Then there is the software aspect that enables remote operation management of the production and workflow mapped out with data so that it is easier to train and perform the farming tasks. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Digital drug discovery in general means large-scale analysis of biological data like genes, gene expression, protein structures, binding sites, things like that. So a new crop of biotech companies have worked to integrate these aspects. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 15, 2024

Last year, autonomous driving startups raised less than $5 billion — the sector’s lowest funding total since 2017, per Crunchbase data. Zephyr AI , $111M, biotech: Mclean, Virginia-based healthcare startup Zephyr AI closed a $111 million Series A from investors that included Revolution Growth and Eli Lilly & Company.

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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.” Insilico uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets and eventually create the drug.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 5, 2024

billion invested across more than 250 companies, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. Other leading sectors include healthcare and biotech companies, which raised $5.1 As of the end of May, AI, healthcare and biotech are the leading sectors so far this year, with each raising around $27 billion in funding.

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