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. The startup is developing oral therapies for patients with immune-mediated diseases.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Medical and biotech had a strong showing at Y Combinator’s latest demo day , with nearly a dozen companies in the space catching my eye. LiliumX is taking the algorithmic approach to generating potential antibody stuctures that could be effective, as many AI-informed biotech companies have before it. Startups take on big pharma.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies.

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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. However, such therapies are typically costly to develop with no guarantee that they’ll work. Show me the data.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

Department of Energy ’s Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. tied) Prolific Machines , $55M, biotech: Unlike in previous weeks, there was no huge biotech round. The startup plays at a unique intersection of healthcare/biotech, AI and 3D technology. Although VC-backed startups in the sector saw more than $2.4

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 12, 2024

Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 Cyera offers a platform that helps security teams at companies understand what data they have and how it’s used, as well as how to secure it — all of which has become more important with companies relying on data to drive AI initiatives.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Zhavoronkov explained to TechCrunch that the last round “was very substantial and was intended to allow us to fund clinical development” and the company is “trying to be very conservative and careful with the money.” This presents an opportunity for Insilico Medicine to emerge as a winner during the biotech spring.”

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Crunchbase News

MAY 24, 2024

Nevertheless, the week saw a $1 billion round go to yet another AI startup, and biotech and blockchain also saw some big deals. Scale AI raised $1 billion in a round led by Accel that values the data labeling and evaluation startup at a stunning $13.8 The startup also creates and fine-tunes data sets.

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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 led by GGV Capital.

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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 31, 2024

Grok is trained off data from another Musk-owned company, X, formerly Twitter. The San Jose, California-based startup has developed a solid-state active cooling chip — AirJet — that allows users to leverage AI even on the edge of networks or on edge devices. just earlier this year. billion upfront. billion upfront.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Play-to-earn games (P2E) are particularly susceptible to this problem, which is why “building a game that succeeds in the long term means developing monetization strategies that can weather market ebbs and flows,” says Corey Wilton, co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs, the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. Development process. Budding Biotech.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Just one startup saw a big raise in the nine figures, and a handful saw $75 million — including a trio of biotech firms. billion, per Crunchbase data. tied) Cleveland Diagnostics , $75M, biotech: There have not been a lot of big raises so far this year, but the few we have seen are usually related to biotech.

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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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Perficient

MAY 21, 2024

But this part of the development process comes with many unique challenges. Tasked with collaborating on trials and delivering groundbreaking innovations to market, the client’s teams struggled to collaborate or to rapidly make important decisions based on incoming clinical trial data across its multiple aging platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rani Therapeutics, a San Jose-based company developing a pill to replace medical injections, went public on Friday. . In 2020, 71 biotech companies went public. On July 30 alone, eight biotech companies were expected to begin trading, including Rani Therapeutics. . In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key.

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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. The startup is a provider of Nvidia ’s latest GPUs, which are highly sought after by AI developers. The round marks the largest by an AI startup this year, per Crunchbase data. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But researchers need much of their initial time preparing data for training AI systems. In the future, we want to help teams with everything from the data preparation to FDA clearance of the algorithms,” Sharma said in an interview with TechCrunch. Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6 and Europe for marketing its tools.

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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. 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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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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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Their models and algorithms tend to be more sophisticated and data-intensive than most industries. They are still building out the platform components, but it will eventually include a discovery engine, a high-performance computing component, data engineering and finally data analytics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug development process more predictable, and so he founded Katakem , one of the startups in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200. ” To Oliverio’s point, drug development today is a lengthy and expensive endeavor. [But] Image Credits: Katakem. million ($1.27

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

It will also further invest in the development of its tech platform and grow the team. Therefore], for researchers in biotech, pharma, and academia, it is very difficult to attract and retain research participants, which adds substantial costs and time to their research. It adds to £500,000 in pre-seed funding in 2018.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Amongst these questions are actual costs of therapies, reimbursement coverage, the commercialisation strategy for psychedelic drug development companies, resource bottlenecks with the therapists’ supply and infrastructure, etc,” they told TechCrunch+. Big pharma awaits more data on this front before an M&A move.

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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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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. Founded in 2020, the company has now raised $222 million, per Crunchbase data. Pretty good for what is normally a quiet time of year.

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DataRobot

APRIL 7, 2021

That way you could develop ideas together, you could collaborate together,” he says. He hopes to use data from a massive biobank effort, first planned under the Obama administration and now known as All of Us, to map the genetic code of one million people. Lee is obviously of the second type. Hood has tried this once before.

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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

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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%). From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 3, 2024

billion, per Crunchbase data. The Asheville, North Carolina-based solar and energy storage product developer plans to use the new cash to help finance the creation of three gigawatts of clean energy infrastructure in communities across the United States by next year. With the latest funding, the company has now raised some $4.6

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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.” “Ren generates a lot of proprietary data for us to train AI to do better than humans.

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