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Three companies are attracting private and public funding for their potentially game-changing efforts to extract lithium from brine in California.
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Katie Rae, CEO & Managing Partner, The Engine was featured on list of women shaping Venture Capital. Meet the leaders at venture firms, and others who could well become the next generation of industry leaders.
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Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream—or a pipe dream—of limitless clean energy.
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Cellino presents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021’s Startup Battlefield to detail how its system could eventually democratize access to cell therapies.
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Cellino Biotech CEO Nabiha Saklayen explains how we could harness advances in biology, machine learning and lasers to create personalized stem cell banks -- and develop medicine uniquely designed for each of our bodies.
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A new on-demand microtransit service launched in the Kent area today. Known as Pingo, King County Metro is piloting the service throughout much of the Kent Valley, East Hill, and Panther Lake areas.
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Boston Metal's green steel solution will help car companies reduce their carbon footprint by developing a more environmentally friendly manufacturing process.
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A major breakthrough was achieved in a key technology for commercial fusion power, and very likely sets up the first ever net-energy-out fusion plant being commissioned four years from today.
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Form Energy recently brought in $240 million to advance their pivotal technology navigating the power grid.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) completed the successful test of a key technology — a very powerful magnet — at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge, Mass.
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Infection mimicry enhances humoral and cellular immune responses to flu vaccine. Silk microneedle patches achieve influenza vaccine release for 2 weeks in mice.
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While most of the quantum computing world is focused on achieving fault tolerant computing – some day – with intermediate applications for NISQ (near intermediate scale quantum) systems emerging along the way, Zapata Computing is taking a different approach.
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CFS shares that its nearing a technological milestone that could take the world a step closer to fusion energy, which has eluded scientists for decades.
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VC darling Form Energy’s unproven path to market could become a model.
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Mariana Matus & Newsha Ghaeli of Biobot Analytics were recognized as two of the 50 emerging female tech leaders to watch in 2021.
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Form Energy has built an inexpensive battery that can discharge power for days using one of the most common elements on Earth: iron.
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Hedron (formerly Analytical Space) won a $26.4 million contract to develop and launch six cubesats and two hosted payloads to begin establishing the Fast Pixel Network for optical communications.
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Venture capitalists are betting that technology from startup Cellino Biotech Inc. will help enable a host of diseases to be cured through stem-cell therapy.
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Cellino Biotech has concluded a $16 million seed financing round that will further advance technology that ultimately seeks to generate autologous induced pluripotent stem cells at scale.
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Boston Metal, which previously raised $20 million back in 2019, uses a process called molten oxide electrolysis (“MOE”) to make steel alloys — and eventually emissions-free steel.
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In a society where speed is of the essence, startups are tackling large, urgent problems that quick fixes can’t solve.
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The Engine has completed a $230-million funding round, including Harvard as an important new partner in the venture, and bringing its total capital commitments to $435 million.
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The Engine has raised $230 million toward the firm’s second fund, which on top of the firm’s first fund brings it to a total of $435 million under management.
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During a year when venture capital firms are chasing hyped software and artificial intelligence startups more than ever, Harvard University is joining MIT to invest in less-sexy — and research heavy — companies aiming to fix more existential problems.
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The Engine has raised $230 million in its second round of funding, and will begin making investments in additional startups focused on conceiving and commercializing solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
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WoHo (short for “World Home”) is trying to rethink how to construct a modern building by creating more flexible “components” that can be connected together to create a structure.
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New peer-reviewed papers predict SPARC, a compact fusion device designed and built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT will achieve net energy from fusion.
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Zapata Computing has released software designed to make it easier for companies to use algorithms invented for quantum computing to improve business processes.
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At WIRED25, Arlan Hamilton and Katie Rae shared their insights on investing in companies that help humanity, and what's stopping other organizations from doing the same.
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Michael Kosta talks to Biobot Analytics co-founder Newsha Ghaeli about her company's national campaign to fight America's coronavirus pandemic by studying samples of human excrement.
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