The cultivated meat industry’s known struggles will take time to sort out, and maybe that’s OK The Wall Street Journal went under the hood of the lab-grown meat industry, also known as…
Category: Biotech & Health
Sometimes you need to cut your startup’s school ties
Sometimes you need to cut your startup’s school ties In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase “recovering…
Chunk Foods close to opening factory to produce ‘millions’ of plant-based steaks
Chunk Foods close to opening factory to produce ‘millions’ of plant-based steaks The global plant-based foods industry accounted for $8 billion in sales and received $1.2 billion in investment in 2022, according…
Amazon closing Halo health division, lays off staff while offering hardware refunds
Amazon closing Halo health division, lays off staff while offering hardware refunds Amazon sent out a note to Halo customers today announcing that it is shutting down its Halo Health division, effective…
UK’s TympaHealth sounds out $23M to expand its hearing diagnostics startup
UK’s TympaHealth sounds out $23M to expand its hearing diagnostics startup The basic principle of Moore’s law — computing becoming more powerful yet more compact — is playing out in a number…
Precision fermentation’s capacity craze: Have we lost the plot?
Precision fermentation’s capacity craze: Have we lost the plot? Blake Byrne Contributor Blake Byrne is building a stealth mode biomanufacturing startup. A recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, he previously served…
Woodoo is creating decarbonized wood-based materials
Woodoo is creating decarbonized wood-based materials Woodoo, a startup working on alternative materials for various industries, has raised $31 million. The company is manufacturing composite materials based on wood so that they…
New Withings scale hides the heavy burden of knowing your own weight
New Withings scale hides the heavy burden of knowing your own weight Today, fourteen years after the company introduced its first smart scale, health gadget startup Withings is introducing the Body Smart…
Curing disease with CRISPR with Trevor Martin from Mammoth Biosciences
Curing disease with CRISPR with Trevor Martin from Mammoth Biosciences Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Trevor Martin…
AI-powered retina scanning startup Mediwhale raises $9M
AI-powered retina scanning startup Mediwhale raises $9M Mediwhale co-founder and CEO Kevin Choi discovered that he had lost nearly half of one of his eyes from glaucoma when he was 24, which…