Author: OurCrowd

[Commonwealth Fusion Systems in CNBC] Inside the race for fusion energy: Commonwealth Fusion CEO on powering the future of AI 

Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO and co-founder Bob Mumgaard joins Morgan Brennan at the UP.Summit in Bentonville, AR to discuss why fusion energy is moving from science experiment to real-world power source. Mumgaard explains how his company is building prototype plants in Massachusetts, preparing for a 400-megawatt commercial facility in Virginia with Google as a customer, and why fusion could be the limitless, clean “star in a bottle” energy source of the future. Watch...

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[Future Family in Forbes Talks] Is IVF funding the next big asset class? One founder thinks yes.

The cost of egg-freezing and IVF for people who want to build families can quickly top $20,000. Claire Tomkins launched Future Family in 2017 as a way to bring more financing options to the IVF process. Tomkins sat down with ForbesWomen editor Maggie McGrath to talk about how she’s scaling her business, why IVF financing is a potentially lucrative asset class, and why she recently decided to hand over the CEO reins to Alden Romney, a veteran healthcare executive. Watch...

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[Polarisqb in Bio Pharma Trend] DARPA funds PolarisQB to advance quantum-aided drug design

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Polaris Quantum Biotech (PolarisQB) an Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) grant to accelerate commercialization of its quantum computing platform for drug design. The funding follows earlier DARPA-backed research under the “Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow” (IMPAQT) program, where the company applied quantum algorithms to identify small-molecule inhibitors against Ebola-related protein-protein interactions. Read more...

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