Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to build “Liquid State Intelligence” for molecular behaviour

Apoha, a deeptech company pioneering what it calls Liquid State Intelligence emerges from stealth today with $36 million in funding. The round is led by Singular, with participation from Tim Draper’s…

Deep Science Ventures and Medicines Discovery Catapult partner to tackle brain drug delivery

Deep Science Ventures (DSV), a UK-based deeptech venture creator, and Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), a life sciences service dedicated to turning drug discovery into commercial breakthroughs, tod…

hephaistos.bio secures €161K to advance sustainable chemical manufacturing

Swiss biotech startup hephaistos.bio hassecured €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to accelerate the developmentof custom enzyme solutions for pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing.Chemical …

What happens in Vega$: steroids, swimmers, and a billion-dollar hustle

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.

iFAST Diagnostics bags £5M to speed up infection testing and tackle antimicrobial resistance

UK biotech iFAST Diagnostics has closed a £5 million funding round. iFAST is addressing the $4 billion (and growing) Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) market. It has developed a test deliveri…

Mykor lands £4M to scale waste-based construction materials

Mykor, a UK biotechnology companydeveloping low-carbon construction materials from industrial and agriculturalwaste, has secured £4 million in funding to accelerate the scale-up of itsindustrial biofa…

Pacifico Biolabs raises €7M to turn brewery infrastructure into protein production

PacificoBiolabs, a mycelium fermentation protein company, has raised €7 million in aSeries A funding round backed by Stray Dog Capital, TGFS, Sprout & AboutVentures, Simon Capital, FoodLabs, and a…

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures. 

Imperagen raises £5M seed round to accelerate AI-driven enzyme engineering

Manchester techbio Imperagen has closed a £5 million seed funding round led by PXN Ventures with participation from Imperagen’s existing investors IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. Established in 202…

Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.