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Who cut the plant-based cheese? Plonts did with microbes, and it’s stinky

Among plant-based alternative proteins, plant-based cheese continues to have a function and taste problem. That’s where Plonts comes in. Company founders Nathaniel Chu and...

UK’s Riverlane scores $75M to correct quantum errors

Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real. Riverlane, a specialist in...

AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia

Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 million in...

Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues

When Mosa Meat served up a first-of-its-kind, lab-grown hamburger in 2013, it cost over $300,000. Eleven years later, around 200 startups worldwide remain...

Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders

The humble garage is so steeped in Silicon Valley lore it’s almost cliché. Yet that’s exactly how Caleb Boyd and Kevin Bush started...

Adept Materials’ dehumidifying paint was inspired by trees and semiconductors

The steam that condenses on your bathroom mirror may not seem like a big deal, but for architects and builders, it can be...

Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation raises $483M in share sale ahead of commercial launch

Self-driving technology company Aurora Innovation was hoping to raise hundreds of millions in additional capital as it races toward a driverless commercial launch...

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