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.

QuberTech raises £3.4M to develop sustainable natural rubber from engineered dandelions

QuberTech, a UK biotechnology company developing sustainable natural rubber from specially engineered dandelions, has raised £3.4 million in combined grant funding and equity investment to accelerate …

Alcolase raises €1.5M to tackle alcohol intolerance with enzyme technology

Danish biotech startup Alcolase has raised €1.5 million with investment from Ada Ventures, Delphinus Venture Capital, Antler, Manigoff Invest and a group of business angels. Alcolase is developing an…