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

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

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

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This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. We often see AI as a technology and a competition between developed countries.

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

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Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Miscommunication and poor project data accounts for 48% of all rework on U.S. Allison Xu.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems. “Our That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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

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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.

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How AI Will Shift Customer Experience to the Next Level

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Its disrupting nature has given it an enormous potential with countless applications. Tesla’s autonomous cars, Google’s personal digital assistant “Siri” and Amazon Alexa/Echo are examples showing how AI can disrupt every aspect of our modern lifestyle.