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23.10.2024 | Boeing's Labor Struggles: A Turbulent Flight Ahead | Boeing is in the eye of a storm. The aerospace giant faces a pivotal moment as it navigates through a turbulent labor landscape. After a month-long strike, the company has proposed a new contract to its workers, but skepticism looms large. ... |
22.10.2024 | Reality Defender Expands Series A to $33 Million to Enhance AI Detection Capabilities | RSA Innovation Sandbox-winning AI-generated media detection platform accelerates development as part of new upsized round led by Illuminate Financial.
Reality Defender, the premier deepfake and AI-generated media detection platform, announc... |
21.10.2024 | Equilibrium Energy: Powering the Future with $39 Million in New Funding | Equilibrium Energy is making waves in the clean power sector. The San Francisco-based company recently secured $39 million in Series B funding. This round was led by DCVC, with notable participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Val... |
21.10.2024 | Equilibrium Energy: $39 Million (Series B) Raised To Build Next-Generation Clean Power Company | Equilibrium Energy—a technology company building a next-generation clean power company—announced market entry into California and signed new battery tolls with top-tier developer Ormat. The company also closed a $39 million Series B venture... |
16.10.2024 | Zap Energy: $130 Million (Series D) Raised To Build A Scalable Fusion Energy Platform | Zap Energy announced it started operations of Century, its new high-rep-rate, liquid-metal-cooled fusion test platform. It closed $130 million of fresh capital, marking significant steps toward a commercial fusion power plant. Century is th... |
03.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fly farmer catches $58m, new deals for restaurant tech, TR4-resistant bananas | Restaurant tech was in the spotlight this week as food delivery app HungryPanda and software startup Dinii both announced new funding rounds. In Canada, Entosystem raised new capital for its black soldier fly larvae farming operation.
In no... |
02.10.2024 | Impulse Space: In-Space Transportation Services Company Raises $150 Million (Series B) | Impulse Space, a leader in developing in-space transportation services, announced a $150 million Series B funding round led by Founders Fund. The round also included participation from other returning investors like Lux Capital and Spring T... |
01.10.2024 | DCVC Raises Over $700M For Two Funds | DCVC, a Palo Alto and San Francisco, CA-based deep tech venture capital firm, closed its first dedicated climate fund and its newest DCVC Bio fund, raising over $700m in funding.
This brings total funding closed over the last two-and-a-half... |
23.09.2024 | Twelve: Carbon Transformation Company Raises $645 Million | Twelve, a carbon transformation company that converts captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products typically made from fossil fuels, announced $645 million in funding. This funding is based on a strat... |
04.09.2024 | Lumafield Announces New Battery Analysis Module for Enhanced Safety and Quality in Battery Manufacturing | Harnessing Industrial X-Ray CT Technology, Lumafield's Latest Tool Seamlessly Detects Defects and Ensures High-Quality Battery Manufacturing at Scale
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumafield today announced the launch of it... |
01.09.2024 | Noetik: AI-Based Biotech Company Raises $40 Million (Series A) To Develop Cancer Therapeutics | Noetik – an AI-based biotech company leveraging self-supervised machine learning and high-throughput spatial data to develop next-generation cancer therapeutics – announced that it closed an oversubscribed $40 million Series A financing rou... |
12.08.2024 | Unspun's $32 Million Leap: A Revolution in 3D Weaving Technology | In the world of fashion, change is often slow. But Unspun, an Oakland-based company, is flipping the script. With a recent $32 million boost from an oversubscribed Series B funding round, Unspun is set to expand its groundbreaking 3D weavin... |
11.08.2024 | unspun: 3D Weaving Company Secures $32 Million (Series B) | unspun, an industry leader in 3D weaving technology, announced $32 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by DCVC, with participation from Lowercarbon Capital, E12, Decathlon and SOSV.
This funding round will drive the rapi... |
31.07.2024 | Unspun secures US $ 32 million to expand 3D weaving technology in Europe | Image Courtesy: https://insideretail.asia
Unspun, an Oakland-based fashion tech company, has secured US $ 32 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round to expand its 3D weaving technology, Vega, in Europe. The funding round was led... |
22.07.2024 | Cadillac unveils concept convertible EV featuring mycelium-based décor from MycoWorks | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent co AgFunder is an investor in MycoWorks.]
General Motors has unveiled a concept car—the ‘SOLLEI’ convertible electric vehicle—featuring MycoWorks’ ‘Fine Mycelium’ bio-based materials in the interior.
The lu... |
15.07.2024 | AI Turbo Acquires neonVest to Build Leading AI-Powered Growth Engine for Startups. | AI Turbo, an AI-powered platform for founders and entrepreneurs, announces the acquisition of neonVest, a venture-backed startup connecting founders to VCs
AI Turbo, a leading AI-powered platform for founders and entrepreneurs, announced th... |
02.07.2024 | Samsara Eco secures AUD $100M to expand plastic recycling | Samsara Eco, an Australian enviro-tech firm, has secured AUD $100 million in its Series A+ funding round.
This financing effort, one of the largest Series A+ rounds ever in Australia, was led by global investment company Temasek and deep te... |
27.06.2024 | Samsara Eco: Pioneering the Future of Plastic Recycling | Samsara Eco, an innovative Australian startup, has recently secured a substantial $100 million in funding to further its mission of combating plastic waste on a global scale. Led by CEO Paul Riley, the company specializes in enzymatic recyc... |
27.06.2024 | Samsara Eco books $100 million Series A extension to make recycled plastics fantastic | Samsara Eco founder and CEO Paul Riley posing with "enzymatically recycled" yarn. Source: Supplied article-article-body
Australian recycling pioneer Samsara Eco has booked $100 million in Series A extension funding, helping the sc... |
16.04.2024 | SOSV Closes $306M Deep Tech Fund for Human and Planetary Health | PRINCETON, N.J., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SOSV, a multi-stage deep tech venture investor, today announced the close of its $306 million SOSV V fund, the firm's largest fund to date.
SOSV V will focus on deep tech startups in human and... |
03.04.2024 | DCVC wanted to raise $500M for its first climate fund, but the market had other plans | DCVC’s target for its first climate-focused fund, DCVC Climate Select, has been all over the place and highlights the roller-coaster venture fundraising conditions of the last few years and how LPs aren’t as quick to back new strategies fro... |
03.04.2024 | From generative chemistry to computational astrophysics, startups employ new methods to fight cancer | Here are a few startups in the cancer space that made headlines recently
The recent revelation of Princess Kate Middleton’s battle with cancer has sent ripples across the globe, reminding us that this disease knows no boundaries of status o... |
17.03.2024 | Relation Therapeutics: A Biotech Breakthrough | Relation Therapeutics, a London-based biotechnology company, has secured a whopping $35 million in new seed financing. The funding, led by DCVC and NVentures, with support from other key players in the industry, brings the company's total f... |
14.03.2024 | Relation Therapeutics secures $35 million of new seed financing led by DCVC and co-lead NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture arm | - |
04.03.2024 | Fervo Energy: Geothermal Development Company Raises $244 Million | Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal development, announced that it had raised $244 million in new funding led by Devon Energy, a shale oil and gas pioneer. And this funding will unlock Fervo’s next phase of growth, deployin... |
27.02.2024 | Freenome scores $254M to advance its cancer-detection blood tests | The San Francisco company readies to reveal its first clinical study results in the near term
When it comes to cancer, spotting it early can make a big difference on treatment options and survival. Commonly a progressive disease, certain un... |
20.02.2024 | Freenome's $254M Boost for Early Cancer Detection | Freenome, a biotech company in San Francisco, just secured a massive $254M in funding to advance their blood-based cancer detection tests. The investment, led by Roche and backed by a slew of other big names, will propel Freenome's mission ... |
15.02.2024 | Freenome Raises $254M to Accelerate Early Cancer Detection Platform | What You Should Know:
– Freenome, a leader in blood-based early cancer detection, has raised $254M in a new funding round, fueled by its innovative multiomics platform and promising pipeline of tests. The funding was led by Roche with parti... |
24.01.2024 | Elo Life Systems raises $20.5m in series A2, aims to launch natural sweetener in 2026: ‘Everyone is trying to reduce sugar’ | North Carolina-based Elo Life Systems has closed a $20.5 million Series A2 round to accelerate the development of a natural high-intensity sweetener and Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating Fusarium wilt fungal disease (TR... |
20.10.2023 | Bots beware! Reality Defender offers solution to detect machine presence | The startup serves governments and enterprises - and has just scored $15M in Series A funding
The proliferation of generative AI applications today has its downsides, not the least of which is knowing when AI has been used. Cover letters an... |
31.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Toyota does indoor farming, Bayer & Pairwise ink deal, cultivated seafood gets big in Japan | Carmaker Toyota recently took a left turn into growing strawberries and cherry tomatoes at one of its production plants. Also in Japan, one of the country’s largest seafood companies has teamed up with a cultivated seafood startup. Meanwhil... |
29.08.2023 | CH4 Global raises $29m to scale seaweed-based platform to slash methane emissions from livestock: ‘We can grow it at a much larger scale, frankly, than anybody else’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in CH4 Global.]
CH4 Global, a startup dedicated to slashing methane emissions from ruminant livestock using red seaweed-based feed supplements, has announced the first clos... |
16.08.2023 | Verdigris Secures $10 Million from DCVC and Solea Energy | New funding will accelerate adoption of the AI-powered energy management platform across carbon-intensive enterprises
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, UNITED STATES, August 16, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Verdigris, a leading provider of AI-powered energy ... |
08.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down | Despite a general scarcity of agrifoodtech funding this week, a few companies announced notable rounds, including the Green Coffee Company, which will expand across Colombia, and Turkish food waste management startup Fazla. Elsewhere, ChatG... |
06.06.2023 | Nium raises $3m seed round from AgFunder, DCVC to eliminate Haber-Bosch from ammonia production | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.] UK-based nanotechnology startup Nium has raised a $3 million seed round to develop its “Green Ammonia on Demand” system that enables onsite synthesis of ammonia to slash both costs and emissio... |
13.04.2023 | 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 | Robotics is a fascinating topic. It can be frustrating, too. When I started covering the space nearly 15 years ago, there was a sense that something big was looming, just over the horizon. But roboticists are a pragmatic bunch, offering pro... |
16.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GrainChain raises $29m, Brigad bags $30m, AeroFarms & iFarm head to MENA | This week, US-based GrainChain announced a $29 million raise for its ag supply chain platform, and hospitality tech startup Brigad landed $30 million. More vertical farming startups are headed to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, ... |
15.02.2023 | BREAKING: Elo Life Systems raises $24.5m to support new sweetener, disease-resistant Cavendish banana | North Carolina-based Elo Life Systems has closed a $24.5 million Series A round to accelerate the development of a natural high-intensity sweetener ‘inspired by monk fruit,’ and Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating Fusariu... |
01.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: BeeHero nabs $42m for precision pollination, Wildtype reels in $7m for cultivated fish | This week, precision pollination company BeeHero landed Series B funding and US-based cultivated seafood company Wildtype caught new funding for its forthcoming alt-salmon product. Elsewhere, collaborative investment platform FoodShot Globa... |
29.11.2022 | Verdant Robotics lands $46.5m in fresh funding from Cleveland Avenue, AgFunder & others | US-based Verdant Robotics has closed a $46.5 million Series A for its “Robotics as a Service” technology that combines crop applications with data analytics for farmers. Cleveland Avenue led the round joined by DCVC Bio, Future Ventures and... |
20.07.2022 | Announcing the startups pitching onstage at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022 | TechCrunch is thrilled to announce the four companies pitching at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022. These four startups stood out from the crowd with innovative hardware or software robotics solutions. You can tune in for free to watch the pitch-... |
07.07.2022 | Announcing the judges for the TC Sessions: Robotics Pitch-Off | On June 21st, TechCrunch will host TC Sessions: Robotics 2022 — virtually. No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. If you’re a founder in the robotics space — hardware or so... |
30.06.2022 | FMC buys BioPhero for $200m to boost biologicals portfolio, hints at further acquisitions | US agribusiness major FMC has agreed to acquire BioPhero, a Danish startup producing pheromone-based biocontrols for the crop-growing industry.
An FMC statement said that the company will buy BioPhero for “approximately” $200 million.
BioPh... |
16.06.2022 | 3 climate tech VCs share how they find, vet and support carbon-slashing startups | Few sectors have boomed in the past few years like climate tech has. But despite the burgeoning urgency driving interest and investments, the ongoing market downturn is threatening to dim the prospects of many bright startups.
But are clima... |
23.04.2022 | Agility Robotics Raises $150 Million Series B Led By DCVC and Playground Global to Accelerate Blended Human-Robot Workplaces | Company Prepares To Introduce Flagship Robot To Logistics and Warehouse Environments
Agility Robotics, a creator and manufacturer of robots designed to work alongside people in logistics and warehouse environments, announced that it has rai... |
22.04.2022 | Agility Robotics Raises $150 Million Series B Led by DCVC and Playground Global to Accelerate Blended Human-Robot Workplaces | Company Prepares To Introduce Flagship Robot To Logistics and Warehouse Environments
Agility Robotics, a creator and manufacturer of robots designed to work alongside people in logistics and warehouse environments, announced that it has rai... |
07.04.2022 | Aclarity Closes $3.3 Million Seed Round To Deploy PFAS Destruction Technology, Eliminate Cancerous Chemicals From Water | An Aclarity team installing a customer system Aclarity |
22.02.2022 | Verdant Robotics unveils ‘multi-action’ tech for specialty crops that handles spraying, weeding & more | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Verdant Robotics.
Verdant Robotics has officially launched its platform that combines data analytics and crop applications such as spraying and weeding into a single farming impl... |
16.02.2022 | Data Snapshot: As agrochemical prices skyrocket, so does funding for biological alternatives | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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07.01.2022 | Crop biologicals market predicted to hit $19bn value by 2026 – but chemicals to continue growth | The market for crop biological inputs is expected to be worth $18.5 billion in value by 2026, up from $10.6 billion today, as consumers, regulators, and farmers push for more sustainable food production methods.
However, ‘traditional’ chemi... |
26.08.2021 | AgFunder raises $21m for New Carnivore alt-protein fund from ADM, Alexandria & others | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
Agrifoodtech VC AgFunder has announced the final close of New Carnivore, its alternative protein fund, on $21 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, surpassing its hard cap.
ADM Ventures, the VC ... |
24.08.2021 | MindRhythm Raises $5M for Stroke Triage Medical Device in EMS Settings | What You Should Know:
– MindRhythm, a medical technology company focused on preventing neurological injury in stroke, today announced it has raised $5 Million in an oversubscribed round of seed funding. Principal investors include Pierre an... |
20.07.2021 | DCVC, Temasek lead $430m funding round in biofertilizer startup Pivot Bio | A startup born in the lab of University of California, Berkeley, is aiming to replace synthetic fertilizers that contribute to greenhouse gases and so-called ‘dead zones’ in the ocean.
Pivot Bio‘s products use microbes to create and feed ni... |
20.07.2021 | DCVC, Temasek lead $430m funding round in biofertilizer startup Pivot Bio | Premium
A startup born in the lab of University of California, Berkeley, is aiming to replace synthetic fertilizers that contribute to greenhouse gases and so-called ‘dead zones’ in the ocean.
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19.07.2021 | Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
19.07.2021 | STARTUP PIVOT BIO RAISES $430 MLN FROM DCVC, TEMASEK, AND OTHERS; VALUATION AFTER LATEST ROUND NEARS $2 BLN | STARTUP PIVOT BIO RAISES $430 MLN FROM DCVC, TEMASEK, AND OTHERS; VALUATION AFTER LATEST ROUND NEARS $2 BLN |
19.07.2021 | BREAKING: Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
20.06.2021 | Scottish alt-protein startup Enough banks $51m Series B led by Nutreco, Onassis Foundation | UK alt-protein startup Enough has raised €42 million ($51 million) in a Series B round co-led by Dutch food and animal feed major Nutreco and Olympic Investments, an arm of the Onassis Foundation set up by 20th century Greek shipping magnat... |
20.06.2021 | BREAKING: Scottish alt-protein startup Enough banks $51m Series B led by Nutreco, Onassis Foundation | UK alt-protein startup Enough has raised €42 million ($51 million) in a Series B round co-led by Dutch food and animal feed major Nutreco and Olympic Investments, an arm of the Onassis Foundation set up by 20th century Greek shipping magnat... |
01.06.2021 | Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield and Away's Jen Rubio just had their first child together. Here are 13 other power couples who rule the tech world. | Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and wife Miranda Kerr. Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Snap Inc
Slack's Stewart Butterfield and Away's Jen Rubio just had their first child together.
They're among over a dozen other leaders in the tech industry in re... |
09.03.2021 | BREAKING: Pest pheromone startup BioPhero nets $17m in DCVC-led Series A | BioPhero, a Danish startup that’s fermenting insect pheromones for crop protection purposes, has just raised $17 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by DCVC Bio, the life sciences-focused fund under Silicon Valley-based DCVC. FMC... |
09.03.2021 | Pest pheromone startup BioPhero nets $17m in DCVC-led Series A | BioPhero, a Danish startup that’s fermenting insect pheromones for crop protection purposes, has just raised $17 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by DCVC Bio, the life sciences-focused fund under Silicon Valley-based DCVC. FMC... |
23.11.2020 | Subtle Medical cierra una ronda Serie A de $12,2M liderada por 3E Bioventures. Acuden Fusion Fund, Data Collective, Delta Capital, Tsingyuan Ventures, Crista Galli y Nina Capital | 23/11/2020
SUBTLE MEDICAL CIERRA UNA RONDA SERIE A DE $12,2M LIDERADA POR 3E BIOVENTURES CAPITAL. ACUDEN FUSION FUND, DATA COLLECTIVE, DELTA CAPITAL, TSINGYUAN VENTURES, CRISTA GALLI Y NINA CAPITAL.
La compañía estadounidense Subtle Medic... |
17.11.2020 | MycoWorks banks $45m Series B funding; DCVC, AgFunder & celebs invest | MycoWorks, which produces an animal-free leather alternative, has raised $45 million in a Series B round co-led by Taiwan’s WTT Investment and California’s DCVC Bio.
New investors included Valor Equity Partners, Humboldt Fund, and Gruss &am... |
28.09.2020 | Can a 20-person startup with $25 million get Oklo’s fast-fission micro-reactor to market? | Oklo is attempting to bring an advanced nuclear reactor design to market despite an ill-fitting regulatory system and 40 years of stasis in the U.S. nuclear industry.
Founded in 2013 with an MIT-dominated founder set, Oklo has managed to su... |
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15.07.2020 | Caption Health Closes $53 Million Series B Round to Democratize Access to Ultrasound With the First and Only AI-Guided Ultrasound Technology | Accelerated Commercialization Due to COVID-19 Will Enable Providers to Offer Optimized, Efficient Care As Healthcare Services Return to Normal Operations
BRISBANE, Calif., July 15, 2020 -- Caption Health, a leading medical artificial intel... |
17.06.2020 | The next X-ray? Seattle startup Proprio raises $23M to build high-tech surgical navigation system | Screenshot of a 3D interactive scene generated by the Proprio system, including live capture of the surgical field fused with preoperative imaging and planning data. (Proprio Image)
Seattle startup Proprio has raised more cash to help build... |
19.05.2020 | SoftBank reports $24bn loss on startup investments, with agrifood performance unclear | SoftBank – one of the world’s most active agrifoodtech investors last year – has reported a ¥1.9 trillion ($17.7 billion) annual loss on its Vision Fund startup portfolio.
This staggering deficit from the Vision Fund – which SoftBank launch... |
09.05.2020 | Startups Weekly: SEC temporarily loosens crowdfunding regulations on small companies | Editor’s note: Get this weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use every Saturday morning by email (7am PT). Subscribe here.
A specific type of small startup has a window to raise crowdfunding in a somewhat less regulated way ... |
07.05.2020 | Top VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting robotics | In the space of several weeks, COVID-19 has transformed countless industries and will continue to do so in ways we can only imagine.
The pandemic has also spurred many to find new ways to work and keep society moving amid physical distancin... |
30.04.2020 | Pivot Bio Raises $100 Million To Transform Agriculture Economics | BERKELEY, CA – APRIL 30, 2020 – Pivot Bio announced today the close of its $100 million Series C funding round co-led by return investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures and global investment company Temasek. Seed and Series A lead and Series ... |
29.04.2020 | Medical imaging challenges and future | Advances in artificial intelligence and hardware are enhancing our medical imaging capabilities
Time, or in the case of healthcare, testing is of the essence, which is particularly difficult when the point of access is a specific testing ce... |
24.04.2020 | Matt Ocko saw COVID-19 coming: Here’s what his venture firm is doing about it | Matt Ocko, co-founder of venture firm Data Collective (DCVC), was among a small group of VCs viewed as alarmists when they began tweeting about the coronavirus’s imminent appearance in the U.S. back in January.
In retrospect, those individu... |
18.04.2020 | Curative received FDA emergency use authorization for its novel COVID-19 tests | The diagnostics startup Curative has received an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its novel test to determine COVID-19 infection.
The company says that its tests have already been used by the City of Los... |
26.11.2019 | Leading robotics VCs talk about where they’re investing | The Valley’s affinity for robotics shows no signs of cooling. Technical enhancements through innovations like AI/ML, compute power and big data utilization continue to drive new performance milestones, efficiencies and use cases.
Despite th... |
22.10.2019 | Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala to invest $250m in MENA startups | Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government’s investment company has announced that it will invest a total of $250-million in startups from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The firm explained in a statement yesterday on LinkedIn that... |
22.10.2019 | Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala to invest $250m in MENA startups | Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government’s investment company has announced that it will invest a total of $250-million in startups from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The firm explained in a statement yesterday on LinkedIn that ... |
14.10.2019 | When will robots be our doctors? | Hear from Data Collective, Doctor on Demand, Notable Labs, Evidation Health, IDx, Startup Health
Vator, HP and UCSF Health Hub held their third salon of 2019 called Reinventing the doctor, where entrepreneurs and investors from Doctor on De... |
19.09.2019 | Where healthtech tools fall short of satisfying patients | Kaiser Ventures, Evidation Health, Doctor on Demand, Express Care weigh in
Doctors and VCs took a deep dive during a discussion about the role technology plays in the life of the doctor, and if their lives are actually becoming better becau... |
18.09.2019 | Deep Tech Investor DCVC Nets $725M For Oversubscribed Fund V | 21 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Back in April, Crunchbase News spotted a filing by DCVC (formerly known as Data Collective) indicating that the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm was raising money for its fifth flagship fund.
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18.09.2019 | Deep Tech Investor DCVC Nets $725M For Oversubscribed Fund V | 22 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Back in April, Crunchbase News spotted a filing by DCVC (formerly known as Data Collective) indicating that the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm was raising money for its fifth flagship fund.
Su... |
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23.05.2019 | Who Are the Most Active AgriFood Tech Investors? | While still a niche corner of the overall venture capital industry, investment in AgriFood Tech startups has grown exponentially since 2012, reaching $17 billion in 2018, according to our research.
AgriFood Tech encompasses all foodtech and... |
12.04.2019 | Data Collective Seeks to Raise $575M Venture Capital Fund | Data Collective (DCVC), a Palo Alto, CA-based AI and deep tech venture capital firm, is seeking to raise a new fund.
According to SEC form filed with the SEC, DCVC V, L.P., aims to raise $575m. No funds have been raised, yet.
Led by Zachary... |
14.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 14 | THE KEY TO A BETTER PARTNERSHIP
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12.02.2019 | Two former members of Google’s skunkworks division have launched a biomanufacturing company | Biomanufacturing technologies — taking modified versions of existing organisms and bending them to the will of humans — has moved from the world of science fiction to becoming a new reality.
Across the startup landscape companies are launch... |
06.11.2018 | Where are VCs investing across precision health? | @inventhealth - GE Ventures, Data Collective, Kaiser Ventures, OSF Healthcare Ventures, Mayfield
At our September 2018 event, SplashX Invent Health: Precision Health, Archana Dubey (Global Medical Director, HP Health Centers, HP) and Bambi ... |
01.10.2018 | SplashX: how does precision health change the doctor’s role? | Investors and entrepreneurs in precision health weighed in on how data is changing the relationship
Last week, Vator held a salon, SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health, co-hosted and co-produced by our awesome partner, HP, where we took... |
26.04.2018 | Monsanto’s Venture Arm Could Be Winding Down, Sources Suggest, As Company Looks for New Talent | *Updated April 27, 2018, 15:35 to add more context around future of MGV.*
Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture arm of Monsanto, has lost all of its dedicated staff after former managing director John Hamer, former investment director... |
23.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, April 23 | IPO AVALANCHE
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EYE-POPPING IPO: Is Spotify about to be one-upped? China streaming giant Tencent Music is getting re... |
21.03.2018 | SplashX - what effect will Amazon have on the healthcare system? | How will big companies like Amazon affect how healthcare is paid for?
Last Thursday, Vator and HP held the first of four events centered around the advances in healthcare. Taking place at HP Headquarters in Palo Alto, this event centered ar... |
20.03.2018 | At SplashX - How VCs define the future of clinics, and what gets them excited about it? | Investors from Khosla, McKesson and Mayfield gave their perspectives on the topic
Last Thursday, Vator and HP held the first of four events centered around the advances in healthcare. Taking place at HP Headquarters in Palo Alto, this event... |
07.03.2018 | Future of clinics - week 4 | Apple, Amazon, Uber redesigning local care; what will healthcare look like with smart speakers?
Healthcare costs are out of control at 18 percent of GDP, and growing. This is up from 5 percent back in 1960. Today, companies can expect to pa... |
01.03.2018 | Meet Scott Barclay, Investing Partner at Data Collective | An investor in sci-fi-like digital health looks to revolutionize 'failed' healthcare system
As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of emer... |
21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
25.10.2017 | Big Data for Ag Platform Gro Intelligence Raises Series A Round from TPG, Data Collective | Nairobi and New York-based agricultural data startup Gro Intelligence has raised an undisclosed Series A round led by TPG Growth, an arm of the $70 billion global private investment house TPG, with Palo Alto VC Data Collective and family of... |
24.10.2017 | Primer helps governments and corporations monitor and understand the world’s information | When Google was founded in 1998, its goal was to organize the world’s information. And for the most part, mission accomplished — but in 19 years the goalpost has moved forward and indexing and usefully presenting information isn’t enough. A... |
17.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, October 17 | VCs + ICOs
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03.10.2017 | Drug discovery startup Recursion raises $60 million in Series B from Data Collective | Recursion, a drug discovery startup out of Salt Lake City, Utah has announced a $60 million Series B round, led by Data Collective (DCVC).
Recursion started out in 2014 on a mission to identify 100 new treatments in 10 years. That’s a lofty... |