biotech

Reshape wants to help ‘decode nature’ by automating the ‘visual’ part of lab experiments

Reshape has developed a robotic imaging system replete with software and AI models to help scientists track visual changes from Petri dishes and similar plate formats.

This Swedish startup wants to reduce the cost, and controversy, around stem cell production

With the news that “mini organs” have been grown for the first time using human stem cells, this futuristic area of bio-medicine is clearly accelerating by leaps and bounds. However, harvesting st

Bioptimus raises $35 million seed round to develop AI foundational model focused on biology

There’s a new generative AI startup based in Paris. But what makes Bioptimus interesting is that it plans to apply everything we’ve collectively learned about AI models over the past few years wit

Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding

Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment. The company exited stealth a little ov

Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck

This pitch deck makes for some really interesting reading and storytelling, so let's dive in and see if we can spot what happened and how.

Making wearable medical devices more patient-friendly with Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas from Acurable

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week we talk with Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas from Acurable.

How Reed Jobs’ venture firm tackles cancer

Reed Jobs’ new venture firm can change the lives of the estimated 18.1 million diagnosed cancer patients worldwide. Yosemite, Jobs’ fund for cancer-fighting biotech, launched in August with $200 m

Scala Biodesign makes it easy to re-engineer proteins one molecule at a time – or 50

There’s a gold rush on in biotech as AI and other tools are used to find new drugs and treatments. With $5.5 million in new funding, Scala Biodesign is focusing these methods on a related proble

I’ve never seen so many crap startups

Startups are so full of shit right now.  The pipes are jammed and there are so many companies that are full to bursting with the desire to un-pack them.  We’ve just been through determining the sh

The academic to founder pipeline with Dr. Stacy Blain from Concarlo Therapeutics

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week, Becca and Dom are joined by Stacy Blain, the co-founder and chief science officer at Concarlo Therapeutics. Blain talked

11 investors predict a colorful, if difficult, future for psychedelic startups

How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look.

Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells that eventually could power AI

While generative AI is buzzy right now, what OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are doing may be only part of the story. There is also the process of using biology: the idea of using stem cells to create bi

Curing disease with CRISPR with Trevor Martin from Mammoth Biosciences

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Trevor Martin the co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, a startup that uses CRISPR t

Startup says the seaweed blobbing toward Florida has a silver lining

A brown macroalgae native to the Atlantic’s Sargasso Sea is increasingly a menace to coastal ecosystems and communities across the Gulf of Mexico, ever since mats of the normally beneficial seaw

This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier

When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., where do you travel to in your mind? Boston? The Bay Area? Texas? Portal Innovations, a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to bro

5 strategies for biotech startups to outlast a market downturn

To ensure survival, it’s essential to explore alternative funding methods rather than relying solely on classic fundraising.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Using predictive LTV, Boston VC survey, active learning for ML teams

Adding predictive LTV to your startup’s marketing strategy may literally help you stop throwing money away.

Biotech proved a surprisingly bright spot in 2022’s startup correction

While not totally immune to 2022's market correction, biotech fundraising proved to be more resilient than other sectors.

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

"Growth at all costs" is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped VCs set expectations for founders — and each other.

US sanctions on China could extend to biotech, official says

On the heels of the Biden administration’s decision to impose sweeping chip sanctions on China, there are signs that China might also lose access to other types of critical U.S. technologies, in
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