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Bolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8

Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk, is raising a whopping $106 million in

Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk

Silk‘s co-founder and CEO, Salar al Khafaji, announced today that private data analytics unicorn Palantir would be acquiring the company. The transaction appears to be an acqui-hire, with member

Silk, A Cloud-Based App To Visualize Data, Launches Its First Paid Product For Teams, Gets Another $1.6M From NEA

Since <a target="_blank" href="http://www.silk.co/">Silk</a> first came out of stealth mode in 2011, there have been 300,000 interactive pages created on its cloud-based, web data-crunching platform

Content Crunching App Silk Raises $1.6 Million Seed Round

<a target="_blank" href="http://silkapp.com">Silk</a>, makers of a free web-based personal database app, today announced a $1.6 million seed funding round led by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cr

Silk scores seed funding from Atomico, others for content crunching platform

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/silk.png" class="shot2" /> <strong>Exclusive -</strong> Amsterdam-based startup <a href="http://www.silkapp.com/">Silk</a>, which offers a pl

Silk Scores Seed Funding From Atomico, Others For Content Crunching Platform

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/silk.png" class="shot2" /> <strong>Exclusive -</strong> Amsterdam-based startup <a href="http://www.silkapp.com/">Silk</a>, which offers a pl

Super strong artificial silk almost here

Apparently there’s something about spider silk that makes it really strong and really hard to replicate. Scientists have gotten closer to being able to make silk-like material that’s &#822