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

Biotech 115

Biotech Generative AI Blockchain Energy 115

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.

Biotech 108

Biotech Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence 108

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kore.ai , $150M, artificial intelligence: Another week and another big round for a generative AI startup. The startup is not new to the AI scene — it’s a decade old — and offers an array of artificial intelligence-related tech from virtual assistants to no-code tools to build AI apps. billion, per Crunchbase.

Biotech 80

Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Pharmaceuticals 80

Crunchbase News

MAY 15, 2024

It also participated in the gigantic $1 billion raise by Xaira Therapeutics , a startup at the intersection of AI and biotech. Finally, it co-led enterprise browser developer Island ’s big $175 million Series D with Coatue that valued the company at $3 billion — doubling its last valuation from less than a year earlier.

Biotech 92

Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Pharmaceuticals 92

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Navigating the choppy e-commerce seas : As reporter Ingrid Lunden writes, “e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products.” 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies. Big Tech Inc.

Marketing 235

Marketing Biotech Retail 3D 235

Crunchbase News

MAY 6, 2024

This has been particularly true for companies that took the SPAC route to public markets around the peak of the last boom. In response, a growing number are choosing to exit public markets and try their luck once again as private companies. After debuting on Nasdaq in 2021 at a $2.1 It didn’t go well.

Biotech 112

Biotech Case Study Marketing Study 112

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The venture market was down 38% last year as investors continued to reel back their funding with money becoming more expensive and liquidity options drying up. With its cash-intensive research and long product-to-market lead time, it usually is not attractive to investors in a down market where cash is king.

Biotech 98

Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Energy 98

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company — a utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platform — will use the new capital to grow its “high value project development pipeline.” Kore.ai , $150M, artificial intelligence: Of course there’s a big round for a generative AI startup. billion in October 2022.

Energy 80

Energy Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence 80

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Sifting through the trillions of molecules out there that might have powerful medicinal effects is a daunting task, but the solution biotech has found is to work smarter, not harder. We will be hiring more top notch AI researchers, software engineers, medicinal chemists and biotech talent, as well as building our own research labs.”

Biotech 265

Biotech 3D Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning 265

Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Big deals The largest startup funding round in April was a $1 billion deal to stealth startup Xaira Therapeutics for drug development using AI. Top sectors Biotech and healthcare was the leading sector by funding amount in April. That is an increase over 2023, but still too few companies to suggest the public markets are truly opening.

Biotech 122

Biotech Generative AI Report Healthcare 122

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The drop in total dollars also meant Black-founded startups received their lowest share in the venture market since at least 2016, per Crunchbase. San Francisco-based Clerkie , developer of an AI financial planning tool for underserved Americans, raised a $33 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital. of the $140.4 of all U.S.

Marketing 135

Marketing Biotech Report Data 135

Crunchbase News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In addition to AI, cleantech, biotech and next-generation manufacturing were among the areas where startups scored outsized rounds. For the fourth quarter, the largest early-stage rounds hailed from the biotech space. Seed stage Seed investment tends to be less impacted by market cycles than early- or late-stage.

Biotech 100

Biotech Generative AI Insurance Artificial Intelligence 100

TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

So a new crop of biotech companies have worked to integrate these aspects. The money will go toward the requisite testing and paperwork involved in bringing a new drug to market based on promising leads. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early.

Engineering 248

Engineering Biotech Chemicals Artificial Inteligence 248

Existek

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With the major progress in all sub-domains of artificial intelligence, the demand for AI developers has tremendously increased. AI-related skills are highly valued in the market and adopted in various industries. List of the Content What do AI developers do? How to hire AI developers?

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence Development How To Artificial Intelligence 52

Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Some think such a development could be the next advancement of AI, since human neurons have some advantages over their digital counterparts. If all that is not terrifying enough, In-Q-Tel — the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency — is an investor. The cash valued the climate-tech startup at $1.15

Biotech 112

Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Energy 112

Crunchbase News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company — a utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platform — will use the new capital to grow its “high value project development pipeline.” tied) Accent Therapeutics , $75M, biotech: Another week, another big biotech round.

Energy 91

Energy Biotech Pharmaceuticals Fintech 91

TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

A biotech company that has spent 11 years researching supplements to increase human longevity plans to launch its supplements later this year. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested in Unity Biotechnology , which is developing drugs to treat diseases that accompany aging. How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies.

Research 261

Research Biotech Nonprofit Comparison 261

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. Without further ado, here are five of our top trends for seed-stage.

Construction 116

Construction Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Generative AI 116

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. While the company has its roots in designing chips that help autonomous vehicles detect objects, it is now also exploring the AI market.

Artificial Intelligence 97

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Energy Backup 97

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

To develop a commercially viable DNA storage platform, Catalog is reducing the amount of chemistry and increasing the amount of automation required for DNA storage and computation. The size of Shannon is like an average family kitchen, according to Catalog.

Storage 206

Storage Artificial Inteligence Data Chemicals 206

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The world’s labs are under pressure to do more tests and process more materials, not just due to COVID but from the growing biotech and drug development sectors — and automation is the sure path forwards. and wider European markets. When we last talked with Automata in 2019 , the company had just raised a $7.4M

Hardware 216

Hardware Biotech Technical Review Systems Review 216

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

Artificial Inteligence 211

Artificial Inteligence Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Report 211

Crunchbase News

JANUARY 12, 2024

It usually takes a couple of weeks after New Year’s Day for the funding market to heat up, but this week already saw three raises hit nine figures. Rokid , $70M, augmented reality: Redwood City, California-based AR goggle developer Rokid raised approximately $70 million from the Hefei Municipal Government.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Games 3D 101

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The lab’s mandate was to deploy the latest advances in AI and ML to develop novel immunotherapies. So, providing an intelligent system — which is one of InstaDeep’s applications — that can optimize train traffic, and manage constraints better, is highly marketable.

Enterprise 246

Enterprise Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Transportation 246

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Late last week, in a rare sit-down before a small audience , this editor spent an hour with Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator and, since 2019, the CEO of OpenAI , the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.”

Energy 275

Energy Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 275

TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Artificial , which has built a software platform for laboratories to assist with, or in some cases fully automate, research and development work, has raised $21.5 The company already has a number of customers including Thermo Fisher and Beam Therapeutics using its software directly and in partnership for their own customers.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Hardware Automotive 246

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. The company plans to use the tech to develop gene therapies for monogenic liver diseases and cell therapies for autoimmune diseases.

Biotech 98

Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Hotels 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Carbon removal needs to become the size of the oil and gas industry, a trillion-dollar market. Khosla said that a good analogy was biotech/pharma investing, where it takes 10-15 years from concept to a drug approved on market. Today it’s about a billion dollars.” ” It’s about people. to pursue those breakthroughs.

Energy 187

Energy .Net Biotech Storage 187

Crunchbase News

MAY 8, 2024

Starry : Boston-based Starry, an internet service provider and developer of fixed wireless technology, didn’t fly high for long after going public via SPAC in early 2022 at an initial $1.8 Last August, Starry emerged from Chapter 11 with restructured finances and a focus on five markets: Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.,

Airlines 83

Airlines Wireless Internet Technology 83

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. Other fungicides on the market today require seven days before re-entry and pre-harvest, Uknes explained. The company, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C.,

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Technology Chemicals Pharmaceuticals 235

Crunchbase News

MAY 3, 2024

The robotics startup says it has developed remote-controlled vehicles — which look basically like a Zamboni — that can eat up and burn away plants or other dry vegetation that fuel destructive wildfires. Getting earlier diagnoses may not stop that trend but could certainly help with care and development. Animal-free eggs and ham?

Chemicals 77

Chemicals Social Hardware Study 77

Crunchbase News

APRIL 24, 2024

Another is First Dollar , which develops tools to consolidate benefits in one digital wallet. StretchDollar , which markets to small businesses extending ICHRAs to employees, closed on a $1.6 One he points to in this arena is San Francisco-based PayZen , which offers consumers payment plans for health expenses.

Healthcare 105

Healthcare Insurance Policies Comparison 105

The Cipher Brief

MAY 31, 2021

The main practices are in fact licit and represent the use of a range of sophisticated contractual mechanisms that have long been part of the global market for ideas. They are an essential component in the sensors and communications systems necessary for artificial intelligence capabilities. Semi-conductors are an example.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Research Government 52

Crunchbase News

APRIL 8, 2024

On the exit front, meanwhile, Q1 brought some renewed excitement to the moribund IPO market with well-received debuts of Reddit and Astera Labs. Below we take a look at both investment and exit activity in more detail, breaking down totals by stage, looking at significant rounds, and tallying up largest M&A and public market exits.

Biotech 123

Biotech Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Quality Assurance 123

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That included more than $200 million for a security company and lots of big biotech raises. Neurona Therapeutics , $120M, biotech: San Francisco-based Neurona Therapeutics was the big biotch winner this week. While the deal for Epic Games certainly grabbed headlines — it is tied for the largest round this year in the U.S.

Biotech 81

Biotech Games Healthcare Generative AI 81

Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

According to a new market intelligence report by BIS Research , the global smart farming market is expected to reach $23.14 Intelligent software analysis for pest and disease prediction, soil management and other involved analytical tasks. Research and development equipment. Marketing and distribution.

Innovation 15

Innovation Artificial Inteligence Artificial Intelligence IoT 15

Pandora's Brain

JANUARY 31, 2022

As an example of his optimism, Mellon says that, thanks largely to the vertiginous advances in artificial intelligence, “if you can stay alive for another ten to twenty years, and if you aren’t yet over 75, and if you remain in reasonable health for your age, you have an excellent chance of living to over 110 years old.”

Pharmaceuticals 52

Pharmaceuticals Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Biotech 52