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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

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Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. While they don’t perfectly reflect technological progress, they showcase investors’ willingness to write checks for the industry.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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The manufacturing industry is undergoing a renaissance, thanks in part to advances in information technology. Afterwards, we spent some time talking about their career journeys and the technology that excites them about the future of manufacturing and business. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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

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The same technology can also be applied to find novel and useful molecules for sustainable chemistry, an emerging area to which Aramco has devoted much effort, the founder explained. ” It “encompasses the design, manufacture, and use of efficient, effective, safe and more environmentally benign chemical products and processes.”

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. Verdi , EyeGage , Animal Alternative Technologies , RoboDeck , Adventr.

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Japan’s Terra Drone lands $70M Series B funding to accelerate global expansion 

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Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. The company also could raise another funding before its IPO, Seki added.

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Android’s facial-recognition future could rely on skin detection

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The technology that might become the future of facial recognition started with a bucket of household paint. Ingmar Bruder was researching organic photovoltaics—and how to make paint that could absorb sunlight and turn it into electricity—at German chemical giant BASF, when he hit upon an unexpected discovery.

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Aigen’s swarm of agtech robots want to make agriculture carbon negative

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Even the diehard people that love chemicals, that love tilling the earth and other practices that have been releasing carbon in the atmosphere for thousands of years are starting to realize, hey, maybe we should be open to other ways to do this,” reflects Richard Wurden, CEO at Aigen. “We are collecting data through images.

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