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A look at 4 IPO updates and 2 late-stage funding rounds

Covering YC Demo Day yesterday was good fun, but I missed a few items while watching several hundred startup pitches. A few years ago, these stories might have been the biggest news of the week.But wi

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Kindred Ventures just closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments

Two years after launching its $56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund founded by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, has closed its second fund

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Zymergen raised $300 million because synthetic biology is so hot right now

Zymergen, one of the companies that’s developing biomanufacturing technologies which could reshape any number of industries, said it has raised $300 million in financing yesterday.It’s pa

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Synthetic biology startups are giving investors an appetite

There’s a growing wave of commercial activity from companies that are creating products using new biological engineering technologies.Perhaps the most public (and tastiest) example of the promis

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Taika is building a better coffee through natural chemistry and adaptogens

So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar…It’s not a joke. It’s the origin story for Taika, a new startup that

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Two Sigma Ventures raises $288 million, complementing its $60 billion hedge fund parent

Eight years ago, Two Sigma Investments began an experiment in early stage investing.The hedge fund, focused on data-driven quantitative investing, was well on its way to amassing the $60 billion in as