| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.07.2026 | Mandrake Bio raises Rs 16 Cr Pre-seed funding from Activate and Antler | In a pre-seed funding round co-led by Activate and Antler, with participation from Spectrum Impact and DeVC, foundational protein design firm Mandrake Bio has raised about Rs 16 crore. Angel investors Vijay Chandru, Paras Chopra, Sanjiv Ran... |
| 17.07.2026 | Cyclotron Road Welcomes 11 New Entrepreneurial Fellows | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2026 cohort of scientists and engineers selected to join Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Cyclotron Road is one of four nodes in the DOE Office of ... |
| 16.07.2026 | Reo.Dev, Naturis Cosmetics, SwitchOn, others pocket early-stage cheques | (L-R) Achintya Gupta, co-founder and CEO; Gaurav Jain, co-founder and CTO; and Piyush Agarwal, co-founder and CRO
AI-native go-to-market platform Reo.Dev, cosmetics manufacturer Naturis Cosmetics, manufacturing AI startup SwitchOn, biotech ... |
| 14.07.2026 | Activate Welcomes 50 Scientist-Entrepreneurs to 2026 U.S. Fellowship Cohort | Competitive Program Supports Founders Building the Next Generation of Hard-Tech Companies
BERKELEY, CA, UNITED STATES, July 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Activate, the nonprofit organization building the community that drives science into ... |
| 06.05.2026 | ACTIVATE Launches Bolstering Resources for Innovators from Developing and Growing Ecosystems (BRIDGE) | New hard tech entrepreneurial program expands organization's offerings beyond its flagship fellowship
BERKELEY, CA, UNITED STATES, May 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Activate today announced the launch of Bolstering Resources for Innovators ... |
| 19.03.2026 | Nitesh Sharan Joins Quantinuum as Chief Financial Officer | BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantinuum, a leading quantum computing company, today announced the appointment of Nitesh Sharan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 6, 2026.
Mr. Sharan brings more than 25 ye... |
| 26.02.2026 | Private Space Ventures Propel Next-Gen Weather Intelligence | Weather forecasting stands at a critical juncture. Record funding fuels a rapid evolution in atmospheric observation. Private innovation now drives significant advancements, surpassing traditional limitations. This new era promises unpreced... |
| 07.02.2026 | Tomorrow.io: $175 Million Closed For Weather Intelligence Platform | Tomorrow.io announced it has raised a $175 million equity financing led by Stonecourt Capital and HarbourVest Partners to accelerate deployment of DeepSky, which the company describes as the world’s first AI-native weather satellite constel... |
| 06.11.2025 | Flux XII: $3.95 Million Raised To Accelerate Commercialization Of Next-Generation Grid Energy Storage | Flux XII, a Madison-based energy storage company focused on advancing aqueous flow battery materials, announced it has raised $3.95 million in seed funding. The round was led by The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment ... |
| 05.11.2025 | Flux XII Raises $3.95M in Seed Funding | Flux XII, a Madison, WI-based energy storage company developing advanced materials for aqueous flow batteries, raised $3.95M in Seed funding.
The round was led by The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment with participat... |
| 24.09.2025 | Fats from fermentation startup Nourish Ingredients establishes global commercial hub in Leiden | Nourish Ingredients, an Australian startup creating novel fats via fermentation, is establishing a global commercial hub at BioPartner 5, Leiden, the Netherlands, which is set to be fully operational by 2026.
The new facility will house R&a... |
| 18.07.2025 | Houston hardtech accelerator names 8 scientists to 2025 cohort | National hardtech-focused organization Activate has named its 2025 cohort of scientists, which includes new members to Activate Houston.
The Houston hub was introduced last year, and joins others in Boston, New York, and Berkley, California... |
| 17.07.2025 | Winning innovations bring home prizes |
Circleg was recognized on the inaugural Forbes Accessibility 100 list, celebrating the world's biggest innovators and impact-makers in the field of accessibility for people with disabilities. The Swiss Kenyan startup transforms readily ava... |
| 16.07.2025 | Houston palliative care company integrates with Epic platforms | Patients and medical teams using MyChart and other Epic Systems' software will now be able to access Houston-based Koda Health's AI-enhanced end-of-life planning platform.
The Houston-based palliative care company, which was born out of the... |
| 15.07.2025 | Cyclotron Road Welcomes 12 New Entrepreneurial Fellows | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2025 cohort of scientists and engineers selected to join Cyclotron Road – a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Now ... |
| 07.07.2025 | The realities of agrifoodtech investment in 2025: ‘Venture capital is not about being patient’ | As recently released mid-year agrifoodtech investment numbers can attest, there’s still a venture capital dearth in the space. The question now is, where should agtech startups look for funding now that VC dollars are flowing less freely?
A... |
| 11.06.2025 | I-Corps Hub West Accelerates Deep Tech Commercialization Across the West | I-Corps Hub West Logo
875+ Teams Trained, $43.7M Raised, and a Vision for Inclusive, Sustainable Innovation
LOS ANGELES, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- I-Corps Hub West, one of the National Science Foundation's leading regional innovat... |
| 30.01.2025 | The State of Investing in Additive Manufacturing: Jeffrey Smith, SIP Capital on Reindustrialization | SIP Capital, a venture firm with a mandate centered on Japanese economic and industrial needs, is taking a measured approach to additive manufacturing (AM) investments. According to Jeffrey Smith, General Partner at SIP, the firm’s strategy... |
| 26.11.2024 | Activate: New Board Members And $3.5 Billion Fellows Funding Milestone | Activate, a nonprofit fellowship where science entrepreneurs transform ideas into advanced hard-tech companies, announced a new funding milestone: Activate Fellows, current and alumni, have raised a cumulative $3.5 billion in funding for th... |
| 11.11.2024 | Fats from fermentation: Nourish Ingredients and CABIO Biotech announce strategic biomanufacturing partnership | Nourish Ingredients, an Australian startup creating novel fats via fermentation, has struck a deal with Chinese biomanufacturing co CABIO Biotech in which CABIO will manufacture Nourish’s first product ‘Tastilux’ at commercial scale.
Tastil... |
| 04.10.2024 | CHIPS for America Announces Entrepreneurial Fellowships Pilot Program | Media Contact: Hannah Robinson, hannah.robinson [at] chips.gov (hannah[dot]robinson[at]chips[dot]gov)
Today, CHIPS for America announced a new $5 million Entrepreneurial Fellowship Pilot Program, funded by the Biden-Harris Administration's ... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Creamy Future: Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra’s Fermentation Revolution**
** | ** In a world where food innovation meets sustainability, a new partnership is stirring the pot. Australian startup Nourish Ingredients is teaming up with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to create a new wave of dairy and non-dairy products... |
| 23.07.2024 | Designer lipids startup Nourish Ingredients collaborates with dairy giant Fonterra on fats from fermentation | Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation.
Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inc... |
| 02.07.2024 | Hardtech fellowship names 11 innovators to inaugural Houston cohort | A national hardtech-focused organization has named its 2024 batch of innovators, which includes the inaugural Houston-based cohort.
Activate named 62 fellows and 50 companies for is latest class, which spans Berkley, California — where the ... |
| 01.07.2024 | 10+ can't miss Houston business and innovation events for July | From networking meetups to expert speaker summits, July is filled with opportunities for Houston innovators.
Here's a roundup of events you won't want to miss out on so mark your calendars and register accordingly.
Note: This post may be up... |
| 01.07.2024 | Texas space tech company scores $843M to build the vehicle that'll decommission ISS | NASA has awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to build the vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of its longtime orbit of Earth when its operating lifespan ends in a few more years.
SpaceX, a privately held company ... |
| 28.06.2024 | Houston energy company opens applications for unique energy tech startup pilot program | Houston-based NOV is launching a new growth-stage startup accelerator focused on the upstream oil and gas industry.
NOV, a provider of oil and gas drilling and production operations equipment, has announced its new NOV Supernova Accelerator... |
| 22.05.2024 | How this Houston clean energy entrepreneur is navigating geothermal's hype to 100x business growth | Geothermal energy has been growing in recognition as a major player in the clean energy mix, and while many might think of it as a new climatetech solution, Tim Latimer, co-founder and CEO of Fervo Energy, knows better.
"Every overnigh... |
| 16.05.2024 | 🎥Fats from fermentation: Chewing the designer fat with Nourish Ingredients | The race is on to develop ‘designer’ fats for the next generation of food products. But will fats & oils produced by microbes in fermentation tanks ever be a cost-effective proposition?
The answer, says Australian startup Nourish Ingred... |
| 06.03.2024 | Cultivated Biosciences raises $5m seed round to expand ‘yeast cream’ platform for alt dairy | Swiss startup Cultivated Biosciences has raised a $5 million seed round to scale up a yeast fermentation platform it claims can dramatically improve the mouthfeel and performance of alt dairy products and help firms achieve cleaner labels.
... |
| 15.12.2023 | Designer fats in focus: Does it make commercial sense to produce fats via precision fermentation? | Multiple startups now harness oil-producing microbes to create ‘designer’ fats with customized melting points, nutritional profiles, or green credentials. But will fats made via precision fermentation ever be a commercially viable alternati... |
| 17.10.2023 | Can ‘designer fats’ made by microbes compete with animal fats and tropical oils? In conversation with Melt & Marble | The race is on to replace tropical [coconut, palm, cocoa] and animal fats with alternatives boasting superior functionality and a reduced environmental footprint. But will oil-producing microbes – even very high-yielding ones – ever be a sc... |
| 02.06.2023 | Meet the founders: ÄIO looks to upcycled feedstocks to fuel biomanufacturing platform | Used in everything from lipsticks to confectionery and meat alternatives, tropical oils such as palm and coconut come with environmental and societal costs. But can oil-producing microbes snacking on upcycled feedstocks give them a run for ... |
| 25.05.2023 | Business
Business | Firms, researchers win advanced-industries accelerator grants | Companies and researchers in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado make up more than half of the 37 firms and six researchers statewide who have been selected to share in more than $9.5 million worth of grants from the state Office of Ec... |
| 11.01.2023 | Biomanufacturing Startup Visolis Has Raised $8 Million To Make Carbon-Negative Materials | Visolis founder and CEO, Deepak Dugar, in the lab. Visolis |
| 01.04.2022 | Umaro’s $3m AgFunder-led seed round hints at a ocean-based future for alternative protein | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Umaro Foods.
California’s Umaro Foods has raised $3 million in seed funding for its technology that turns seaweed into a protein source and functional ingredient for meat analogs... |
| - | LA Tech Week: Could AI Make the Art History Degree Relevant Again? | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Digital marketing agencies have already had to upend their practices to keep up with TikT... |
| - | LA Tech Week: Six LA-Based Greentech Startups to Know | At Lowercarbon Capital’s LA Tech Week event Thursday, the synergy between the region’s aerospace industry and greentech startups was clear.
The event sponsored by Lowercarbon, Climate Draft (and the defunct Silicon Valley Bank’s Climate Tec... |
| - | Facebook’s former CTO Mike Schroepfer explains why he’s turning his attention to climate change | When longtime Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer announced he was stepping down as Meta chief technology officer, he said he was going to be spending his newly available extra time and energy focusing on addressing the climate crisis.
Schro... |
| - | LA Tech Week Day 5: Social Highlights | L.A. Tech Week has brought venture capitalists, founders and entrepreneurs from around the world to the California coast. With so many tech nerds in one place, it's easy to laugh, joke and reminisce about the future of tech in SoCal.
Here's... |
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