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Record funding boosts Denver-Boulder’s life sciences market

Record funding boosts Denver-Boulder’s life sciences market

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This story is part of CNBC’s quarterly Cities of Success series, which explores cities that have become business hubs with an entrepreneurial spirit that has attracted capital, companies and employees. The Denver-Boulder region is quickly emerging as a major hub for the life sciences industry, attracting companies that are developing cutting-edge medical treatments and technologies. …

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Record funding boosts Denver-Boulder’s life sciences market

Record funding boosts Denver-Boulder’s life sciences market

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The Denver-Boulder region is becoming a major hub for the life sciences industry due to the growth of venture capital and government funding, a collaborative research environment and a booming market for laboratory space. The pool of skilled life sciences workers is growing much faster in the Denver-Boulder area than the national average. “Boulder has …

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Madeleine Darcy may be the new kind of investor health that consumers need

Madeleine Darcy may be the new kind of investor health that consumers need

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Madeline Darcy Kaya Ventures Women’s health may be under siege in places like Alabama, thanks to a recent state Supreme Court ruling that effectively freezes IVF against the already dire backdrop of a post-Dobbs world. But more and more research dollars and investments are pouring into efforts to better understand and address women’s health. The …

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PlayStation maker Sony invests in African gaming startup Carry1st

PlayStation maker Sony invests in African gaming startup Carry1st

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The PlayStation DualSense controller and the PlayStation 5 console. Jakub Pozhicki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The deal is a strategic investment that will allow the two companies to partner on a number of commercial opportunities. For now, the two companies are in the “exploratory stages” of this partnership. Cordell Robin-Coker, chief executive and co-founder …

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Singaporean venture financier InnoVen looks at tech startups in China after raising US$130 million

Singaporean venture financier InnoVen looks at tech startups in China after raising US$130 million

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InnoVen Capital Group, a leading provider of venture debt in Southeast Asia, has pooled its accumulated cash to finance early-stage Chinese companies as challenges ranging from China’s slow economic recovery to regulatory uncertainty limit startups’ access to funding . The Singapore-headquartered venture debt firm announced on Friday that it has completed the first close of …

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SoftBank led a $104 million investment in travel startup TravelPerk

SoftBank led a $104 million investment in travel startup TravelPerk

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TravelPerk CEO and co-founder Avi Meir. TravelPerk TravelPerk primarily uses AI technologies such as machine learning and neural networks in the backend to help automate many of the manual tasks involved in corporate travel—for example, connecting users with the best prices for flights and accommodations. “Traditionally, if you look at legacy players, like American Express …

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Bigeye receives strategic investment from Alteryx Ventures

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NEW YORK, December 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Bigeye is excited to announce a strategic investment from Alterix, Inc., the Analytics Cloud Platform company, to strengthen its data monitoring platform and global reach. Bigeye provides lineage-driven data monitoring to help enterprise data teams monitor data pipelines and detect data quality issues before they impact their business. …

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More people can buy private equity, hedge funds. It can be risky

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Private investments such as private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and equity in start-up companies usually require investors to be “accredited”. In the early 1980s, the top 1% to 2% of households were accredited. In 2019, the share was 13%, according to the SEC. Private investments can offer higher returns than publicly available ones, such …

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Elon Musk calls anti-Semitic tweet ‘the real truth’

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TeslaSpaceX and the leader of X Corp. Elon Musk posted a series of undeniably bigoted tweets on Wednesday that drew backlash online. First, Musk drew attention to and subscribed to an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, then directly accused “Jewish communities,” the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League, and minorities of what he called “anti-white” messages and views, without gives …

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Healthcare investment firm opens Nashville office | Healthcare

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Tom Keefe Photo: Oxeon The company offers executive search, investment and venture capital services. Tom Keefe, an Oxeon principal and head of the Nashville office, recently relocated to Nashville after working with the company since 2013. Keefe and director Rebecca Velez Frey plan to hire 10 net new employees in addition to the six relocated …

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