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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of April: Xaira And Pine Gate Lead Huge Month Of Megadeals

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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. The company develops power-optimized chips targeting the data analytics and generative AI markets.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Metsera And Rivos Headline A Slow Week

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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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Celestial AI Tops List Of Large Raises

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While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Earlier in March, shares of Astera Labs — a developer of data center connectivity technology with use cases in generative AI — soared after its initial public offering on the Nasdaq.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

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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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

TechCrunch

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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The Biggest Of The Big: AI Startups Raised Huge — These Were The Largest Deals Of 2023

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Artificial intelligence was big in 2023 — and that could be the understatement of the year. As part of the deal, Anthropic will now use Amazon Web Services data centers, as well as AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. It even has invested in a handful of biotech companies using AI.

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Key takeaways from the SOSV Climate Tech Summit

TechCrunch

Khosla said that a good analogy was biotech/pharma investing, where it takes 10-15 years from concept to a drug approved on market. .” To summarize the scale of efforts needed, Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab , Heliogen and Energy Vault , said , “We need thousands of shots on goal to do it, and entrepreneurship is the answer.”

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