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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

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“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. Our approach and core conviction is that it is actually easier, and ultimately better, to design new hardware systems aimed to foster the growth around the cells, rather than trying to fit these cells to existing engineering systems.”

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Non-dilutive biotech capital, long-term angel investing, WayRay’s $80M pitch deck

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3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn. Most biotech founders who are looking to raise in this environment assume that dilutive capital is their only option, but that’s short-sighted, writes James Coates, Health and Human Performance principal at Decisive Point.

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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home

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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Lambda Leads Massive Week For Megadeals

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Not exactly sure what was in the water this week, but AI and biotech led the way as happens often. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. Freenome , $254M, biotech: This is just the first of many big biotech raises this week. billion valuation.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. HealthTech + BioTech. Winnowing the group to 200 companies was a challenging, exhausting thrill ride, and we could not be more excited by the results. Space + Security. SaaS, Enterprise + Retail.

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Automata expands its lab automation ambitions with $50M B round

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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. “We’ve had to build an entirely new hardware stack that allows for this kind of automation,” ElSayed said.

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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

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It is then tech and industry agnostic, which means that these companies can be hardware, software but also deeptech, biotech or fintech startups. With this program, Techstars is looking for companies working on water, energy, waste management and other sustainability-related issues.