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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. But if cities can deploy a well developed rapid response plan we have an opportunity to take on this challenge head on and hopefully head off a complete economic collapse. . Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity.

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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

TechCrunch

a biotech company focused on developing “organ-on-a-chip” technology, closed an $82 million Series E round on Tuesday. This latest round is intended to formulate a massive investment in a “roadmap” for developing model organ systems created to fit drugmakers’ needs and bring the idea of an organ-on-a-chip into use in the lab. .

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

TechCrunch

As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. trillion industry in the United States — a complex ecosystem of lenders, owners, developers, architects, general contractors, subcontractors and more. Miscommunication and poor project data accounts for 48% of all rework on U.S.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

TechCrunch

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

TechCrunch

Description: “4pi Lab is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation providing real-time, wildfire detection, monitoring and reporting. Kinnami has created a unique storage and security system, ‘AmiShare’, which fragments and encrypts data. ” Clutch Space Systems. ” Kinnami.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

TechCrunch

They were developing specific technology that could impact many sectors,” noted Jilani on InstaDeep’s pioneering tech. We often see AI as a technology and a competition between developed countries. With BioNTech, we have developed a partnership over the years and completed many successful projects together.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

TechCrunch

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites.