May 21, 2026

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.

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Silicon Valley Bank is being shut down today by regulators

March 10, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators, which are now in charge of the bank’s deposits, according to a release sent out by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Friday. While banking activities in SVB’s 17 branches are closed today, SVB’s operations will resume on Monday – this time, with the FDIC in charge. […]

Silicon Valley Bank is being shut down today by regulators by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

March 10, 2023

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. One of the core challenges is that it has traditionally been hard to do agile hardware product development — even if you get everything ‘right,’ how do you know that people actually want one of the 20,000 gizmos you […]

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Roku partners with Best Buy and its advertising business to get first-party shopper data

March 10, 2023

Roku and Best Buy announced today that as part of their new first-to-market partnership, Roku gets access to Best Buy’s advertising platform. Also, Best Buy customers have exclusive access to Roku-branded TVs. The relationship is a first for Best Buy since it’s never partnered with a TV streaming platform to provide its first-party sales data. […]

Roku partners with Best Buy and its advertising business to get first-party shopper data by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch