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TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study

TechCrunch

6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech. In her latest investor survey, Anna Heim spoke to six biotech investors about where AI creates value, short-term market shifts, and how they’d like to be approached by founders: Robert Mittendorff, M.D, general partner and head of healthcare, B Capital.

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Life Sciences Executive Search Firms: Bridging Biotech and Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Unique Challenges of Biotech Leadership Recruitment Organizations face some unique challenges when it comes to leadership recruitment in the biotech space. Navigating these unique challenges in biotech leadership recruitment requires a comprehensive understanding of the industry, its trends, and specific needs.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

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%).

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

TechCrunch

Hong Kong-based drug discovery and development company Insilico has secured fresh capital at a time that its CEO described as a “biotech winter.” Insilico uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets and eventually create the drug.

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Union.ai raises $10M to simplify AI and ML workflow orchestration

TechCrunch

“Searching for the right solution led the team deep into machine learning techniques, which came with requirements to use large amounts of data and deliver robust models to production consistently … The techniques used were platformized, and the solution was used widely at Lyft.”

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Meet the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, presented by ShowStoppers and TAITRA

TechCrunch

The other one is the WISE-2410, a vibration sensor for monitoring motor-powered mechanical equipment and identifying potential issues so manufacturers can schedule maintenance before machines malfunction, resulting in expensive downtime. ” Rice Air makes LUFT Cube, a small filterless nanotech personal air purifier.

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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘unscrupulous actors’ and market trends, Coinbase CEO lays off 950 workers 

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German-based biotech company BioNTech — one of the big manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, among other things — is set to acquire InstaDeep , a Tunis-born and U.K.-based And we have a smattering of additional stories for you: Keeping an eye out — on the cheap : Frederic reports that Wyze launches its new $34 pan-and-tilt security camera.

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