Author: OurCrowd

Newsletter: Superfood from waste + 3D printing goes large

Top investment opportunitiesStartup of the Week: Largix, 3D printing for large itemsMaolac: Superfood from wasteA winter’s tale: Tu B’Shvat and venture capitalPepsiCo hails success with CropX in MexicoBlueTree: Natural juice, less sugar, huge marketCareer in high tech? Learn more on MondayXage raises $30M for critical cybersecurity techFlytrex CEO: Nationwide drone deliveries on the wayPolarisQB teams up with PhoreMost for cancer drug developmentBird Foundation backs OurCrowd portfolio projectsMeMed raises $93M following FDA clearance to reach $200M Alpha Tau scores 97% success in US skin cancer trial Tovala CEO: Innovation doesn’t come from thin airIntroductionsMore than 4,300 high-tech jobs Startup of the Week: Largix: First 3D printing for large industrial items Existing 3D printers are not capable of printing large, room-size items to industrial quality standards. The robotic 3D printing platform created by Largix can produce large-scale industrial objects using standard polymers, slashing by up to 50% the cost of items like storage tanks by removing the need for scarce, highly-trained labor. Largix’s Cold 3D Printing technology powers the first printer capable of performing real industrial production using the most common thermoplastic polymers: polypropylene and...

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[Shield in TechCrunch] Shield bags $15M Series A to address surging demand for its AI-powered communication compliance platform

Over the past two years, since the pandemic hit, there has been a sharp rise in financial crime compliance costs, nearing $50 billion in 2021, up 58% compared to 2019, in the U.S. and Canada. Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup, built a compliance surveillance platform to enable regulated financial institutions to detect market abuse, gain behavioral analysis, mitigate toxic workplace culture and automate surveillance over employee communication channels. Read...

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