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Tiamat Sciences cooking up plant-based proteins for cheaper production of cellular meat

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Today, it announced $3 million in seed financing, led by True Ventures, with participation from Social Impact Capital and Cantos. Future Fields is tackling cultured meat’s biggest problem. Tiamat Sciences is one biotech startup developing a more cost-effective biomolecule aimed at replacing more costly bioreactors.

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Novel Farms flexes its pork loin ‘muscle’ following future equity investment

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Still, she doesn’t expect to get the pork loin into the hands of consumers until 2025, with commercial plants coming online in 2026, followed by mass production in 2027. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? We just have a very good, efficient scaffold, and the cells attach very well,” Martinez Marshall said.

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

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Laiye’s Series C financing came in three tranches, with the last one to have recently closed at $70 million, an oversubscribed round led by influential Chinese private equity firm Hopu Magnolia. Wang also saw a strong “cultural alignment” between his business and the French startup led by a team of young founders.

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Indonesian payments infra startup Xendit raises $64.6M in Accel-led Series B

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Notably, Y Combinator also participated in the financing. Today, the startup aims to help businesses of all sizes seamlessly process online payments, run marketplaces, distribute payroll manage finances and detect fraud via machine learning. million in a Series B led by Silicon Valley heavyweight Accel. It also was ranked No.

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Tiger Global, Blume back Indian startup bringing safety — and intelligence — to EVs

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The geography is diverse, the use cases of how people use electric vehicles are two-wheelers, kind of in terms of culture in terms of behavior, in terms of geography, all of it was different,” Asati said. Asati said that the plan is to power more than 100,000 vehicles by next year and the hit the milestone of 500,000 by 2025.

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Your deal flow is not diverse enough

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There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Women entrepreneurs and fundraising. against 3.6%).

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4 principles private capital firms should follow to win the talent race

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Alternative assets under management are primed to exceed $17 trillion by 2025 — a compound annual growth rate of 9.8% But there’s one function desperately in need of the same modernization: compensation. Private markets are eclipsing public markets, and the trend shows no indication of letting up.

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