Tag: investment
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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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Infographic – Private R&D Outpacing Defense Contractors
Our infographic this weekend offers a stark illustration of how private companies have surpassed defense contractors in R&D spending.
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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.
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Drones, A.I. Deployed by Agricultural Start-Up
A new company is combining drone photography with artificial intelligence to provide growers with better data to monitor and manage crop growth.
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Start-Up Targets Extra DNA in Cancer, Raises $46.4M
A new biotechnology enterprise is developing treatments for aggressive solid tumor cancers that block the effects of DNA residing outside of chromosomes.
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Migraine Drug Developer Raises $82.5M in IPO
A developer of a drug for migraine formulated as a dry powder and given as a nasal spray is raising $82.5 million in its initial public offering of common stock.
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Gene-Editing Biotech Gains $34M in Early Funds
A two year-old enterprise spun-off from Yale University is developing gene-editing treatments for genetic disorders with synthetic peptides and DNA delivered in nanoscale particles.