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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. When Jose applied to YC, he had developed the technique in academia but hadn’t yet tried applying it to therapeutics in animals.

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Eclypsium lands $25M to secure the device supply chain

TechCrunch

Bulygin says that the capital will be put toward expanding Eclypsium’s product capabilities, supporting current sales efforts and expanding headcount from around 80 people to over 100 by the end of the year. federal government contracts.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments. . “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Pricing strategy, technical due diligence, pitch deck appendix fever

TechCrunch

In his latest TC+ post, Michael Perez, director of growth and data at VC firm M13, shares five questions he uses to devise pricing strategy frameworks , along with three value metrics and a detailed measurement plan for GTM strategy. CEO and co-founder Puneet Gupta has shared his seven-step plan for developing usage-based pricing models.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Could Valo Health become one of Flagship Pioneering’s biggest companies yet?

TechCrunch

The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. But if you have the potential to change the scope, the scale, the potential, the speed, the probability of success, [and] the cost of developing drugs, you’re not going to look like a typical therapeutics company.

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