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Gates, Wellcome and Mastercard launch $125 million fund to finance COVID-19 treatments
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard announced a new initiative yesterday to accelerate technologies designed to identify,…
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FDA allows new diagnostic technologies to test for coronavirus before receiving emergency approvals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that it would allow new diagnostics technologies to be used to test…
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Financing for social impact and climate businesses gets a billion dollar boost with new KKR fund
KKR, the multi-billion dollar, multi-strategy investment firm, has closed on over $1.3 billion for companies focused on social and environmental…
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Mike Volpi on the art of board membership
Mike Volpi Contributor Mike Volpi is a general partner at Index Ventures. Before co-founding the firm’s San Francisco office with…
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Alpha Foods raises $28 million for its vegetarian prepared foods
Alpha Foods, the vegetarian prepared food manufacturer, has raised $28 million in financing for its portfolio of vegetarian burritos, tamales,…
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Middle East healthcare platform Vezeeta raises $40M Series D led by Gulf Capital
Vezeeta, a healthcare platform operating in the Middle East and Africa, has raised a $40 Million Series D funding round…
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Ancestry lays off 6% of staff as consumer genetic testing market continues to decline
Excitement in the consumer genetic testing market continues to show signs of slowing down. In the past two weeks layoffs…
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With echoes of Theranos, Truvian Sciences revives the dream of low-cost, accessible blood tests
A little over a year after the dissolution of the once high-flying blood testing startup Theranos, another startup has raised…
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Naspers Foundry is open for South African startup pitches, CEO says
Naspers’ 1.4 billion rand (≈$100 million) VC fund to support South African startups — Naspers Foundry — is accepting pitches,…
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