TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Are you inspired to use biology as technology? Whether you’re a biotech entrepreneur, a researcher or a scientist tackling the daunting challenges of human and planetary health, this session will help you build a stronger, more successful startup as you take your product to market. Do you science?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. That grew into aquaculture farming technology with Russek and his team creating a startup company around it called Maricultura Vigas. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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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. A startup needed to raise $200 million or more to break into this list for the April edition. Let’s take a look.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ImpriMed, a California-based precision medicine startup, builds AI-powered dog cancer treatment technology that helps veterinarians identify the most suitable drugs for individual canine and feline blood cancers.

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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. 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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Protein biochemist Dr. Jasmin Hume was working in the alternative food space when she saw an opportunity to evolve technology so that our global food industry can reduce its reliance on animals. She started Shiru in 2019, and the company uses a “precision fermentation” process to create plant-based ingredients for food companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway 5 strategies for biotech startups to outlast a market downturn Image Credits: Getty Images Spinning up a biotech company is a massive undertaking. “The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.”

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 26, 2024

This week’s theme was definitely AI, as many of the largest rounds went to startups using AI in coding or biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round this week was really big. Endeavor BioMedicines , $133M, biotech: Yet another big biotech raise this week. The new equity round was led by Coatue.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

As the technology exhausts its honeymoon period, and companies in all industries find new ways of using it to get ahead of the competition, a new race is on. Gen AI helps scientists develop new proteins Another interesting set of use cases can be found, for the time being, in 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. While it’s too early to say venture funding will again increase in the sector this year, it is evident investors see the potential in both quantum technology and its ability to produce big financial returns.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Based in Japan, biotech startup Dioseve ’s ambitious goal is to grow human oocytes, or eggs, from other tissue. Right now, issues it is monitoring include the inheritance effect of the technology—can it not only produce healthy babies, but also avoid health issues in subsequent generations? “We We are really serious about ethics.

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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. That may not have happened since the early part of 2022 — if then.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Dear Sophie, We have a stealth early-stage biotech startup. Budding Biotech. Can early-stage biotech startups get H-1Bs? Yes, most definitely!

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 1, 2024

The quintet that did raise big were from three of the usual sectors — biotech, energy and AI — however one was from a sector we don’t normally see — a vertical farming agtech startup. FogPharma , $145M, biotech: It sure feels like this will be a big year for biotech startups, as a few make this list every week.

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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. Machine learning has, of course, accelerated work in many fields, biochemistry among them, but he felt that the potential of the technology had not been tapped.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

In a statement about the investment, East Ventures managing partner Koh Wai Kit said, “Digital technologies can improve the accessibility and affordability of good quality healthcare. We are excited by Medigo’s mission to revolutionize pharmacies and healthcare services in Vietnam.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

BioNTech’s founding story dates back to the late 1990s, when CEO and co-founder U?ur ahin, his wife and co-founder Özlem Türeci, and the rest of the seven-person founding team began their research. “At that time, mRNA was not potent enough,” ?

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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

MARCH 15, 2021

A new nanocoating from Curran Biotech could dramatically improve air filtration to prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors. Their Capture Coating technology acts as a supplement to any household or commercial HVAC system by bonding to the filter fibers , giving them greater hydrophobic properties.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Clean tech – Tied in with the biotech trend, we’re seeing a continued surge in input/output companies that process waste to produce byproducts like energy and potable water. The robotics, AI and biotech sectors all play a part here. It’s a big new data rush. We’re seeing other wildly interesting trends too.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 18, 2022

While we’re still far away from achieving that lofty goal, science has advanced a lot and as life expectancy increased, longevity is now a realm of technology and medicine that aims to increase how long people can live healthily. We all know how powerful technology can be in shaping behavior.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

French startup Callyope isn’t your average startup as it is addressing a very hard problem in a highly regulated industry. The startup is building a remote patient monitoring platform for people living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and potentially other mental health issues.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

UMI’s decision to invest in Boost comes from our evaluation of their team, technology, and the associated market opportunities. Boost is already working with an undisclosed biomanufacturing partner to develop its bio-fungicide. “These are critical areas to achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture.

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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 14, 2023

But when an idea originates in a lab — whether it’s AI, biotech, robotics or another deep tech research project — things quickly become tougher and much more expensive. Wu applies rigorous science and engineering to transform emerging technologies into solutions for national defense, humanity and the planet.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Route 128, the highway that runs outside of Boston, was once known as ‘America’s Technology Highway, ’ rivaling Silicon Valley for influential tech companies. Boston’s always been a great technology town in my opinion, and it’s hard to beat [all the] colleges and universities with more STEM grads than in any state in the US.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

His firm has an impact fund focused on the future of food and began investing in alternative proteins in 2016 before expanding that to delivery systems in agriculture technology, he said. While the solution would be to not do that, not doing that would mean produce doesn’t grow as well, he added.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

On average, reports show that lab-grown meat costs about $50 , but that new technologies could bring that down to a more reasonable $3 per pound by 2030. Tiamat Sciences is one biotech startup developing a more cost-effective biomolecule aimed at replacing more costly bioreactors.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Pae Wu and Garrett Winther are both partners at SOSV and run the fund’s programs around biotech and hardware. SOSV doesn’t shy away from startups building complex technology, and because of this, Wu and Winther are well placed to advise on fundraising. Breakthrough technology hardly came from sudden breakthroughs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

But Locus Biosciences is hoping that their crPhage technology might provide a new solution. Led in part by former Patheon executive and current Locus CEO Paul Garofolo, the startup launched in 2015 with the goal of using a less popular application of CRISPR technology to address growing antimicrobial resistance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

This morning private-market powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz announced that it has closed $9 billion in new capital for its venture capital, growth-stage and biotech-focused vehicles. It’s a capital arms race in the private markets, as enthusiasm for technology companies both traditional (software, etc.) remains red-hot.

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