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Biobot Analytics, the Cambridge startup tracking COVID in America’s waste water
Boston Globe
Biobot Analytics is gaining traction as it studies sewage to predict the pandemic.
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Biobot: In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge
The New York Times
Biobot Analytics is tracking COVID-19 in wastewater, helping cities and hospitals respond to the most recent wave of the coronavirus.
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Energy from the earth, for the earth
MIT Technology Review
Quaise Energy CEO Carlos Araque is looking to change the factors limiting access to geothermal power using a groundbreaking technology developed at MIT.
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Paul Le Floch, Co-Founder and CEO of Axoft, awarded Forbes 30 Under 30
Forbes
Le Floch is the CEO and Co-Founder of Axoft, developing soft brain implants to treat neurological disorders by communicating with tens of thousands of neurons.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems secures $1.8 billion in funding
Financial Times
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has secured nearly $2 billion in funding to develop their promising fusion energy technology.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems smashes Massachusetts record for venture capital
Boston Globe
Fundraising by private startups has skyrocketed this year, but Commonwealth Fusion Systems just sent the trend into orbit.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems Lands $1.8 Billion as Investors Chase Star Power
Wall Street Journal
Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised more than $1.8 billion in the largest private investment for nuclear fusion yet as startups race to be the first to generate carbon-free energy like the sun.
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What investors look for when deciding to back an A.I. startup; featuring Reed Sturtevant
Fortune
The demand for artificial intelligence that can help solve real-world problems is only continuing to grow, and consequently, investors are receiving more pitches from startups claiming to be the next big thing.
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Osmoses Material Thinner Than Human Hair Could Slash Carbon Emissions
Bloomberg
Super-thin membrane from startup Osmoses aims to cut pollution and improve CO2 capture economics.
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Hedron, formerly Analytical Space, raises $17.8 million
Space News
Hedron raised $17.8 million and intends to roll out the first orbital plane of what it intends to be “the world’s first hybrid optical/RF data relay network."
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Biobot Analytics, The MIT Offshoot That Detects Viruses in Wastewater, Raises $20 Million
Bloomberg
Biobot Analytics, a pandemic-era leader on testing to detect levels of the coronavirus in wastewater, has raised $20 million in funding.
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MIT spinoff Via Separations scores $38M Series B to decarbonize manufacturing
TechCrunch
Via Separations raises $38M to reduce the amount of energy required in a manufacturing process, resulting in lower carbon creation, lower energy usage and lower costs.
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Can the US take the lead on cleaner lithium production?
Canary Media
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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Nine Women Shaping Venture Capital— featuring Katie Rae
Wall Street Journal
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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Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
The New Yorker
Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream—or a pipe dream—of limitless clean energy.
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Cellino is using AI and machine learning to scale production of stem cell therapies
TechCrunch
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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Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells?
TED
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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The Routing Company: Metro Launches Pingo Microtransit Service in Kent
The Urbanist
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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Green Steel Becomes a Hot Commodity for Big Auto Makers
Wall Street Journal
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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Fusion breakthrough dawns a new era for US energy and industry
The Hill
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: Battery Makers Tied to Power Grid Attract Big Investors
Wall Street Journal
Form Energy recently brought in $240 million to advance their pivotal technology navigating the power grid.
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Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at Commonwealth Fusion Systems
CNBC
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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Enhancing influenza vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy through infection mimicry using silk microneedles
Vaccine
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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Zapata Computing’s Formula for Achieving Quantum Advantage Today
HPC Wire
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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Commonwealth Fusion Systems Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
The New York Times
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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Long-duration energy storage is now a reality. How can it make money?
Canary Media
VC darling Form Energy’s unproven path to market could become a model.
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50 Female Emerging Tech Leaders to Watch in 2021
The Org
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 Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries
Wall Street Journal
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 wins $26.4 million to establish optical network
Space News
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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Cellino Biotech to Pursue Cell-Therapy Cures With $16 Million Seed Financing
Wall Street Journal
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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