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. Late last month, optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund.

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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. Celestial AI , $175M, semiconductors: Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund.

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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 round was led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund. Freenome , $254M, biotech: This is just the first of many big biotech raises this week. billion valuation.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 7, 2024

Other industry sectors should keep a close eye on the critical milestones and pitfalls of the biotech/healthcare space - with an eye toward what platform, product, service innovations, and architectures may have a potable value proposition within your industry. Details here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Respira Labs , a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year , successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. I believe it is a financial and a moral imperative to make climate technology, together with medicine, the main priority of humanity. Many promising technologies have matured and now have an easier path to entering the mainstream.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Lifebit says it has a patented technology for federating the data around genomic data, allowing researchers to get more insights while keeping the data secure. In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key. Existing investors Eurazeo, Pentech Ventures and Beacon Capital also participated.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Zurich-based Climeworks is capturing CO 2 from the air via commercial carbon dioxide removal technology, and has raised $784 million so far. Now Copenhagen-based biotech company SecondCircle thinks it also has a novel approach. ” Synthetic biology technology is already starting to be widely applied in a number of areas.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Biotech company Senzo just raised a $2 million round at a $20 million pre-money valuation to further extend options for lateral flow diagnostics. Our ALF technology converts that potential to reality in myriad applications where more and earlier diagnosis results in better patient outcomes and more timely and cost-effective patient care.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Other operational and technology jobs were affected as well. This is despite reports saying Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

According to a statement, the company will invest heavily in developing new manufacturing technologies across cell and gene therapies, viral vectors, vaccines and proteins. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “It Founded by ARCH Venture Partners investor Robert Nelsen, National Resilience Inc.,

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In such an environment, most would think the tech sector most greatly affected by the pullback would be deep tech — casually defined as cutting-edge scientific innovation that can create brand-new industries. This feels like a tough period … But there are big things happening quietly.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

But bioreactors were only very recently only found in biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories and aren’t exactly designed for easy operation and customization. Some of these can already be found in the innovations of other cultivated meat startups, but it’s a fast-moving sector. To operate it, you don’t need a Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

France could become a leading market when it comes to sustainability-focused and impact startups due to local and European regulation, innovation and talent looking for opportunities in this ecosystem. According to him, Techstars could bridge the gap between these two worlds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Technologists are getting better at coding biology and venture firms are flooding a new generation of startups with cash so they can commercialize their technology bringing in the next wave of genetic innovation. We look forward to turning this powerful technology into a new category of medicines.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

A prominent figure in life sciences innovation, Imran has founded over 20 medical device companies and helped develop the world’s first implantable cardiac defibrillator. The technology itself started with a very simple thesis,” said Imran in an interview. “We This will finance us for the next several years,” said Imran.

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Capgemini

MARCH 23, 2023

Is innovation a privilege? Lucy Mason 23 Mar 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin The UK’s Innovation Strategy sets out a bold vision for the UK as an Innovation Nation , detailing how the UK can reinvent itself as a driving force for global innovation – even placing innovation in the role of a new national purpose.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Deep tech, medtech/biotech, climate tech, and crypto and blockchain are all areas that investors say they’re either actively investing in or watching for signs of scale. Now, certain industries are emerging as potential areas where New Zealand can win in the tech space. New Zealanders make really good founders.

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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-energy , $235M, energy: The top round this week may have slipped under most people’s radar. and Kam Ghaffarian to hit that big total.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Most people consider the CIO to be a technology person, and they want to put them in a technology box, but technology should be only 20% of a CIO’s job,” says Hadari, who has been leading IT for the $15 billion biotech business since March 2021. Here are the essential management skills he looks for in IT leaders today.

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Planbox

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Montreal, Canada — Planbox, a pioneer in cloud-based, AI-powered agile innovation management solutions, today announced it has ranked among the fastest-growing companies in the Deloitte North America Technology Fast 500. Technology Fast 500 awardees are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2016 to 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We mainly invest in SaaS companies with some proven traction in the market – but overall, we seek the best technology entrepreneurs that want to make an impact. Our focus is on entrepreneurial and technological initiatives aimed at digitalizing and increasing the productivity of traditionally undigitized sectors.

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Modern CTO

MAY 2, 2024

We discuss how Mike navigated feeling stuck in life, moving into a role of meaning and positive change in the world, and how they’re helping transform the field of biotech. Today we’re talking to Mike Rubin, Founder and CEO at Northpond Ventures. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Have feedback about the show?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The audacious project has received over $40 million from investors such as Adjuvant Capital, Y Combinator and Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and partnered with organizations like Illumina, Genentech and Parexel. I will continue to support the company and the scientific ecosystem, particularly the African genomics ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“InstaDeep happened to be quite different from other companies in our pipeline as they were actually into deep tech versus applying technology to a certain sector, where basically, you become an operator in that sector. They were developing specific technology that could impact many sectors,” noted Jilani on InstaDeep’s pioneering tech.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2024

The round was led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund. Freenome , $254M, biotech: This is just one of many big biotech raises this month. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Louis, Missouri-based venture capital firm soon after completing high school, 23-year-old Williams has backed dozens of companies — with a special interest in agtech and biotech and including a couple of very large tech companies that he’s not at liberty to mention. I was inspired by the people in my life.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab. With the new funding, the enterprise AI company plans to accelerate the launch of disruptive AI products across biotech, logistics, transportation and electronics manufacturing.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 29, 2024

The deal is the latest headline concerning brain-computer interface technology, which has been pushed by Elon Musk ’s Neuralink. That company recently live-streamed a quadriplegic man playing video games using its implant. It has raised nearly $700 million, per Crunchbase.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2024

Wonder ’s big $700 million raise may have captured most people’s attention last month, but the story when it came for large deals was really biotech. Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: It was a huge month for big biotech raises and this was the biggest. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2024

Healthcare and life sciences are two of the largest industry verticals Perficient serves, with a substantial roster of clients spanning providers, plans, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. The medical device industry, in particular, is changing rapidly, and innovations are becoming more and more complex.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Organize for innovation , re-acquire lost tribal knowledge , challenge - but respect - commercial orthodoxy , and constantly re-apply what you learn to change the rules of engagement in an industry. A recent FT Lex article on biotech investing drives the point home: "A 20-year study found only one-fifth of exits were profitable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Which technologies are you paying attention to right now? electric scooters, replaceable battery technologies) generate a high volume of e-waste. So some of the technologies that have been invested in could be foundational for other things that come in later. How will they play a role in addressing climate change?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

compared to the same time last year, it’s even more important for emerging technologies to present more than promises. The FDA’s breakthrough device program focuses on technology that will meaningfully help an overly taxed system. The breakthrough device designation program is based on pilot studies done on the technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

. “Where legislation continues to lag, it’s important for technology to take a proactive stance to bring transparency to current and future innovations and mitigate the kinds of risks we see today.” ” Hessie Jones, partner, MATR Ventures. Due diligence needs to expand past the point of founder ‘intentions.’

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