Tag: equity
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Medical Knowledge A.I. Company Raises Early $4.8M
A company developing a system with artificial intelligence to analyze medical literature for treatment insights is raising nearly $5 million in its first venture round.
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Institute Invests in Elderly Care Start-Up
Regenstrief Institute, affiliated with Indiana University, is investing in a new company aiming to improve long-term care for older individuals.
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Infographic – Q3 A.I. Health Investments Set Record
Venture capital funding for companies worldwide building artificial intelligence solutions in health care set new highs in the third quarter of 2019.
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Engineered Organ Transplant Company Raises New Funds
An enterprise that applies gene editing to create replacement organs from pigs for human transplant is raising $100 million in new venture financing.
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AstraZeneca Joins $1B Fund, Expands Footprint in China
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is starting a joint $1 billion health care investment fund in China and vastly increasing its labs and offices there.
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Fund Finances Start-Ups Outside Main Tech Hubs
A venture capital company unveiled a second seed-stage fund that finances start-up enterprises in the U.S. outside of Boston, New York, and Silicon Valley.
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Infographic – Biotech Index Decline Continues
The NBI is in decline since reaching its peak for the year in the spring, erasing all of the gains for the year at the beginning of October.
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Q3 Venture Investing Falls, Biotech Remains Hot
Venture capital investments fell in the third quarter of 2019, both in dollar volumes and number of deals, with declines occurring in the U.S. and worldwide.
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Merck Gaining Gut Microbe Technology for Vaccines
Drug maker Merck & Co. is partnering with a developer of treatments for disease derived from microbes in the gut, for discovery of up to three vaccines.
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Women-Founded Start-Ups Raise More Capital Than Male-Only
Start-up enterprises founded or led by at least one woman on the team raise more capital than comparable start-ups founded by men only.