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Collaborative Disruption at the DoD with Kathleen Hicks and Sharon Weinberger

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It sounds like you’re committed to the August 2025 timeline for it. Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. So we work very hard on trying to drive up the percent of our procurement and investment that is going to those small businesses.

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

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Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. The result of those major disruptions? billion in 2019. .

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Insurtech giant Equisoft lands $125M investment, eyes acquisitions

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Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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These 5 investors are betting on helping you live longer and better

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Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. But that doesn’t sit well with Christian Angermayer, who co-founded Cambrian BioPharma and Rejuveneron, and whose family office Apeiron Investment Group has a special interest in expanding longevity.

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NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

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NXgenPort, which presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, is building an implantable chemo port that features added sensors and remote connectivity functions. Skinner says the startup anticipates human testing to begin toward the end of 2025.

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The coming reckoning: Showing ROI from threat intelligence

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And as these teams grew and adjusted to protecting against customer data breaches and disruptions to services, growing pains associated with working in a corporate environment were to be expected. billion in 2025 from $262.4 billion in 2025 from $262.4 Expectations are changing, though. billion in 2021. billion in 2021.

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Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year

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Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. Volta’s wider business strategy will be based both on selling trucks as well as offering its vehicles on a trucking-as-a-service model.