Author: OurCrowd

[Plenty in Vertical Farm Daily] US: ‘Plenty’s R&D facility to reach beyond Wageningen University and Research capabilities’

“We’ve been working on this platform for over a decade and this is a groundbreaking version of our R&D platform. We’re ushering indoor agriculture into the AI age. Plenty’s new Wyoming facility is set to double our research capacity,” says Arama Kukutai, CEO of Plenty, commenting on the vertical farming company’s recent expansion announcement. Read...

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[BioCatch in nocash] Scammers steal €5.14 billion from French online-banking customers in last year. The sum equivalent to 0.2% of the nation’s GDP.

According to a new report, French consumers lost €2.92 billion less (€5.14 billion total) to scammers in 2024 than they did a year ago (€8.06 billion). While that represents a more than 33% decline, it still means the French lost a sum equivalent to 0.2% of the nation’s GDP to scams in the last year alone. The findings from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and BioCatch – the global leader in digital fraud detection and financial crime prevention powered by behavioral intelligence – show a nation making progress in its fight against scams but still suffering greatly from an onslaught of attacks. Read...

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[SignalRank in SignalRank] Asset managers are embracing alternatives – are VCs ready?

It seems like almost every day at the moment that an asset manager is announcing a new partnership to make alternatives go mainstream. BlackRock’s acquisition of Preqin in the summer fired the starting gun on this rush to alternatives, by signaling an intention to index private markets. Last week saw Apollo & State Street launch a “private credit” ETF (well, up to 15% of the portfolio can be private). This week saw BlackRock announce a partnership with Partners Group for an all-in-one private markets product. Read...

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[AlphaTau in GlobeNewswire] Alpha Tau Announces FDA Approval of IDE to Initiate Multi-Center Investigator-Initiated Study of Alpha DaRT® in Immunocompromised Patients with Recurrent cSCC

JERUSALEM, Sept. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (“Alpha Tau”, or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: DRTS, DRTSW), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT®, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to initiate a multi-center study for the treatment of recurrent cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC) in immunocompromised patients using the Alpha DaRT. Read more...

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