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.” It has nominated eight preclinical candidates since 2021.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The software company was developed at Colossal Biosciences — known for its goal to bring extinct critters like the wooly mammoth back to life — and is now striking out on its own. As companies aim to cut costs and reel in spending amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions, Form Bio thinks it is actually the perfect time to launch its platform.

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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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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. That’s still a lot of cash, but clearly round size trended down.

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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

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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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Rockville, Maryland-based X-energy, a developer of advanced small modular nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy, completed its Series C financing that totaled $235 million. X.AI , $135M, artificial intelligence: You may have heard Elon Musk has an artificial intelligence startup to compete with OpenAI.

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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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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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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

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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Crunchbase News

MARCH 15, 2024

Applied Intuition , $250M, autonomous vehicles: Autonomous vehicle software developer Applied Intuition locked up a $250 million Series E valuing the company at $6 billion — a 67% uptick in value from its previous round. Like many biotech startups raising big money currently, Zephyr is bringing AI to the sector.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Unlearn’s digital twin product replicates the characteristics of patients in trials to enable what the company claims are smaller, faster studies, built on a combination of AI and historical data. “We use data combined from a large number of previously-run clinical trials.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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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

MAY 3, 2024

CoreWeave , $1.1B, artificial intelligence: Funding to AI-related startups increased slightly in Q1 2024 compared to Q4 2023, and that trend may continue in the second quarter based on this week’s big round. billion, per Crunchbase data. Big rounds have seen a pickup this year, and this week is the best example yet.

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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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Existek

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With the major progress in all sub-domains of artificial intelligence, the demand for AI developers has tremendously increased. Moreover, the involvement of AI developers has been proven to play a prominent role in delivering sophisticated products and services. List of the Content What do AI developers do?

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Recurrent Energy , $500M, energy: This large round may have gone under the radar for many, but Austin, Texas-based Recurrent Energy secured a $500 million preferred equity investment from BlackRock. billion, per Crunchbase data. Kore.ai , $150M, artificial intelligence: Of course there’s a big round for a generative AI startup.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Funding numbers for quantum computing, space travel and robotics combined only dropped 24% in 2023 from the previous year, per Crunchbase data. AI and deep tech Of course one segment that has always been related to deep tech ventures is the one segment that is dominating all of tech — artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The drug development space is continuing to attract more and more investment. Generate Biomedicines is touting a platform-based approach to drug development, but with its own spin: a focus on proteins. . Meanwhile, investment in AI-based drug development has also snowballed. Per a Stanford University 2020 report, it reached $13.9

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2024

based startups, per Crunchbase data. Last month, a16z seemed to have a thing for healthcare and biotech. The startup uses artificial intelligence to extract “the full image quality potential” from smartphone cameras by reversing “lens aberrations and sensor imperfections.” Let’s dive into the busiest firms from February.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Global venture capital funding reached just over $22 billion in April 2024 — flat month over month and up a few percentage points year over year — Crunchbase data shows. billion, representing about 49% of funding last month, Crunchbase data shows. Top sectors Biotech and healthcare was the leading sector by funding amount in April.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here at Crunchbase News, we have our own future-telling tool: Seed-funding data. AI-enabled healthcare There’s a lot of funding for nascent companies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. New York-based Jona wants to use artificial intelligence to uncover links between the microbiome and health.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Healx is one of a host of startups invested in using AI for drug development and identification. Healx’s platform, called Healnet , uses machine learning to crawl through data on existing drugs, and potential disease targets, to find new connections. Funding for AI-based drug development skyrocketed to $13.5

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In addition to AI, cleantech, biotech and next-generation manufacturing were among the areas where startups scored outsized rounds. billion into startups and growth-stage companies at Series C and beyond, per Crunchbase data. For the fourth quarter, the largest early-stage rounds hailed from the biotech space.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Recogni , $102M, artificial intelligence: Although most startup chipmakers have not seen much love from investors so far this year , Recogni seems to have bucked that trend. The company’s accelerator chip uses live data in trained models for predictions — all while requiring less energy, the company says.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 3, 2024

Per Crunchbase data, just seven U.S. Others include: Imbue , a startup that trains foundational models to develop AI agents, landed $200 million in a September Series B round at a valuation of more than $1 billion. The number of new female-founded unicorns, in particular, has dwindled sharply.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

German-based biotech company BioNTech — one of the big manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, among other things — is set to acquire InstaDeep , a Tunis-born and U.K.-based It gives brands a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world. Startups and VC.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Cortical Labs plans to use the money to commercialize its biological computer chips — referred to as DishBrain — which has already learned to play basic video games like Pong. Some think such a development could be the next advancement of AI, since human neurons have some advantages over their digital counterparts. Close more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Ahead of the official start of CES, the Taiwan Excellence awards were announced by non-profit trade promotion group Taiwan External Trade Development Council (known as TAITRA ) and ShowStoppers , giving a preview of what its startups offer. The device also has a patented SD card lock feature to protect data.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

They have established business relationship management functions , developed “we are the business” rallying cries, and built leadership development programs emphasizing influence, courage, and business acumen. Carissa Rollins, who became the CIO of Illumina in April of this year, strongly believes in the capabilities management model.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The city’s tech ecosystem appears to have a robust space for machine learning, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, fintech, travel tech, oil, renewables, e-commerce, gaming, health tech, deep tech, space tech and insurtech. Strong in fintech, health tech, data science, deep tech. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

They were developing specific technology that could impact many sectors,” noted Jilani on InstaDeep’s pioneering tech. We often see AI as a technology and a competition between developed countries. With BioNTech, we have developed a partnership over the years and completed many successful projects together.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It’s in the process of developing new tools that give surgeons the ability to see otherwise invisible structures, and has plans to roll out those tools in the coming months. . The results of those trials have not yet been released, but the company expects to publish data from that trial in October, a company PR confirmed to TechCrunch. .

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