| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.02.2025 | Miist Therapeutics: Breathing New Life into Medicine with $7M Funding | In the bustling world of healthcare innovation, Miist Therapeutics stands out like a lighthouse in a storm. The Alameda, California-based company has just secured $7 million in seed funding, a financial boost that promises to propel its gro... |
| 05.02.2025 | Miist Therapeutics Raises $7M to Develop Inhaled Medicines with Physics-Based Approach | What You Should Know:
– Miist Therapeutics, a pioneering company developing inhaled medicines with a focus on rapid drug delivery raises $7M ina seed funding round led by Refactor Capital with participation from 1517 Fund, Freeflow Ventures... |
| 22.04.2024 | General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide | Plenty of products benefit from tight integration, where companies design and sometimes build key components of a product in-house: Apple and its custom microprocessors and Tesla and its Superchargers are two notable examples.
It’s not an e... |
| 13.03.2024 | IVF uncertainty aside, startups rush to offer fertility care amid rising demand | AI tools, egg freezing, surrogacy, IUI, donorship, oncofertility, genetic analysis, loans, and more
In the aftermath of the Roe v. Wade overturn, U.S. fertility clinics (and patients alongside them) are battling an unlikely complication in ... |
| 07.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake | This week, Germany’s Green Generation Fund landed more capital to invest in alt-protein startups, while Israeli foodtech firm Phytolon scored funding for its natural food coloring tech.
In the food delivery realm, Amazon bought a stake in G... |
| 07.07.2022 | BREAKING: Fyto lands $15m to grow aquatic “superplants” for animal feed and beyond | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fyto.
US-based agtech startup Fyto has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its specialized aquatic “superplants” that can be used for animal feed, food and soil health ing... |
| 16.12.2021 | BREAKING: Phytoform bags $5.7m to boost crop resilience through genome edits | Agtech startup Phytoform Labs has raised a $5.7 million Seed round of funding to scale up its AI-based plant genome-editing platform.
Seed-stage investor Eniac Ventures led the round. Wireframe Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, FTW Venture... |
| 16.12.2021 | Phytoform bags $5.7m to boost crop resilience through genome edits | Agtech startup Phytoform Labs has raised a $5.7 million Seed round of funding to scale up its AI-based plant genome-editing platform.
Seed-stage investor Eniac Ventures led the round. Wireframe Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, FTW Venture... |
| 14.12.2021 | Ophelia Raises $50M to Expand Its Novel Approach to Opioid Addiction Treatment | What You Should Know:
– Ophelia announced its $50 million Series B funding round, led by Tiger Global to expand access to medication-assisted treatment (the CDC’s recommended first-line treatment) to more people with opioid use disorder.
– ... |
| 04.12.2020 | Backed by Khosla Ventures, Rubedo Life Sciences Secures $12M for Drug Discovery Platform | What You Should Know:
– Biopharma startup Rubedo Life Sciences raises $12M to develop a broad portfolio of innovative therapies engineered to target cells for chronic age-related diseases.
– Rubedo’s proprietary ALEMBIC™ drug discovery plat... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 21.10.2019 | Now A Solo GP Firm, Refactor Capital Closes $30M For Fund II | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
According to paperwork filed this morning with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Burlingame, CA-based Refactor Capital successfully closed $30 million for its second fund.
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| 21.10.2019 | Now A Solo GP Firm, Refactor Capital Closes $30M For Fund II | 14 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
According to paperwork filed this morning with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Burlingame, CA-based Refactor Capital successfully closed $30 million for its second fund.
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| 02.09.2019 | What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk? | This really was an extraordinarily wacky and perhaps controversially ‘Homo Deus’ news story — GM goats who had been transplanted with a spider’s silk-making genes to transform their milk into something much less drinkable and much more silk... |
| 02.05.2019 | Refactor Capital Co-Founder David Lee Steps Away, Becomes Chairman: Term Sheet for Thursday, May 2 | MOVING ON
Refactor Capital is ready for round two. The early-stage venture capital firm is raising $30 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. The fund will continue to focus on deals in the biology and health space and cut... |
| 15.09.2018 | 40 AND UNDER: The Silicon Valley biotech stars who are backing startups aiming to cure disease, prolong life, and fix the food system | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Putting millions of dollars into bold new technologies can be a delicate business when lives hang in the balance. But every day some of the... |
| 01.06.2018 | SV Angel says it won’t be raising another fund from outside investors | SV Angel, the seed-stage investment firm, announced today that it’s getting out of the traditional venture business. At least, said the firm, going forward, its founders, meaning famous angel investor Ron Conway and his son Topher, will be ... |
| 17.05.2018 | In the next few weeks, you can spend time with any one of these VCs and it will all go to charity | Five years ago, we told you about a venture capital auction wherein dozens of VCs donated their time toward a greater good — helping fund research at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, one of the world’s largest voluntary health organizat... |
| 24.10.2017 | Plant-based Peroxide-Maker Solugen Raises $4.4m Seed Round from Y Combinator, Joe Montana’s VC, others | A biomaterials startup using CRISPR gene-editing technology has raised $4.4 million in seed funding for its plant-based bio-peroxide technology. Solugen will use the funding to expand distribution of its bioperoxide and launch a consumer br... |
| 04.04.2017 | Pluto AI raises $2.1 million to bring intelligence to water treatment | Former 500 Startups accelerator company Pluto AI is announcing $2.1 million in fundraising today from Fall Line Capital, Refactor Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Comet Labs and additional angels. Pluto is taking advantage of the sensorificati... |
| 09.03.2017 | Refactor Capital cofounder highlights seed stage fund strategy | About half of digital health investments were at the seed or Series A stage last year, according to data from Rock Health.
Bilimoria started Refactor Capital with David Lee, also a managing partner, who previously worked as a managing partn... |
| 08.03.2017 | Refactor Capital Closes First Early Stage Venture Capital Fund, at $50M | Refactor Capital, a Burlingame, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its maiden fund, at $50M.
Co-founded by David Lee, former Managing Partner at SV Angel, and Zal Bilimoria, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Refactor Cap... |
| 14.08.2016 | Easy Money: Finova Financial to Launch First All-Digital Lending Platform
Bitcoin on Wheels: How We Took Part in European Bitcoin Tour
Blockchain embraces gold to provide stability and growth for cr... | Florida-based Fintech company Finova Financial secures record-breaking $52.5 million in funding for auto title lending platform. Largest funding in history of Fintech
Being the first cloud and mobile-based auto title lending service for con... |
| - | Refactor Capital cofounder highlights seed stage fund strategy | One year ago, a partner from Andreessen Horowitz and a managing partner from SV Angel began raising what would become a $50 million fund to invest in seed stage startups across heavily regulated industries that have been slow to adopt innov... |
