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Scientific breakthroughs have accelerated the pace at which new pharmaceuticals are being developed. Tierra Biosciences thinks that pace can go faster. The San Leandro-based company has developed a platform for AI-guided, custom protein synthesis to help pharmaceutical, industrial and agricultural organizations develop new proteins in weeks rather than months. Simply put,...
A couple of years ago, payments orchestration was a foreign term to many large companies Juan Pablo Ortega would speak to. Today, the Yuno co-founder and CEO doesn’t have to do as much explaining. “The perception has changed dramatically,” Ortega told TechCrunch. “Many large companies are now well aware of...
Regina Ye says she and Topsort co-founder Francisco Larrain have learned a lot in the two years since their auction-powered advertising startup launched. The company raised $8 million in seed funding in 2022 to value the company at $110 million. Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use...
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. You already know what we’re expecting, so sit back, relax and stay tuned throughout the week as we bring you the products, announcements and startup news from MWC...
The venture capital stars were shining in Los Angeles this week at the Upfront Summit, an invite-only VC conference founded by Mark Suster and known for going all-out. For example, there were Coco robots serving drinks and lots of pink. AI was the talk of the town again and even...
Inspired Capital is celebrating its fifth birthday with the closing of its Inspired Capital Fund III with $330M in capital commitments. This new amount brings the firm’s total assets under management to nearly $900 million. The New York-based early-stage venture firm was founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Alexa von Tobel...
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. You already know what we’re expecting, so sit back, relax and stay tuned throughout the week as we bring you the products, announcements and startup news from MWC...
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. You already know what we’re expecting, so sit back, relax and stay tuned throughout the week as we bring you the products, announcements and startup news from MWC...
Smaller companies are just as eager to use AI tech to supercharge their sales processes as their bigger competitors. However, they often lack the in-house IT expertise or the capital to implement enterprise-level tools, like OpenAI or Anthropic. Darwin AI, a Brazil-based AI startup, is developing a conversational AI assistant...
Golden Ventures, a Canada-based venture capital firm, closed on over $100 million in capital commitments for its fifth fund targeting high-potential, seed-stage founders working across technologies, including AI, climate, blockchain and quantum. Matt Golden, founder and managing partner, started the Toronto-based firm in 2011 and amassed a team, including Ameet...