Poppy Seed Tea Can Trigger a Morphine Overdose
Food and drinks containing unwashed poppyseeds can make people test positive for opioids—and can in some cases be fatal.....»»
New Zealand startup HeartLab raises $2.45M to bring heart scanning software to the US
New Zealand-based medtech startup HeartLab has raised $2.45 million in seed funding that it says will help the company expand its AI-powered heart scanning and reporting platform to cardiologists in the United States by early next year. HeartLab prov.....»»
Concreit closes on $6M to allow more people to invest in the global private real estate market
Concreit, a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. Hyphen Capital also participated in the round, in addition to i.....»»
Online events platform Delegate Connect gets $10M AUD led by AirTree
Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect th.....»»
Tanso nabs $1.9M pre-seed to help industrial manufacturers do sustainability reporting
The climate crisis is creating massive demand for data capture as industries grapple with how to decarbonize. Put simply, you can’t cut your carbon emissions if don’t know what they are in the first place. This need to gather data is a bi.....»»
Changes by IPC companies trigger new wave of component shortages
External circumstances and changing industry demands have continued to impact various industry chains since the second half of 2020. For IPC companies, the consensus in 2021 is that they can only produce as many products as there are materials......»»
Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level
Relyance AI, an early stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25 million Series A today. At the same time, they revealed a previously unannounced $5 million seed round. Menlo Ventur.....»»
Ascend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance
Ascend is moving insurance into the digital age by with a payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines.....»»
Digital freight marketplace BridgeLinx raises $10 million in Pakistan’s largest seed funding
BridgeLinx, a 9-month-old Lahore-headquartered startup that operates a digital freight marketplace, said on Tuesday it has raised $10 million in what is the largest seed financing round in Pakistan. Harry Stebbings’ 20 VC, Josh Buckley’s Buckley.....»»
Trade promotion management startup Cresicor raises $5.6M to keep tabs on customer spend
The company focuses on providing small to mid-size CPG companies with an automated way to manage their trade promotion in retail stores. Cresicor, a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 million in seed fund.....»»
Ivermectin overdose death probed in NM: “I don’t want more people to die”
A second person is in intensive care, a health official with the state says. Enlarge / A box and container of ivermectin. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) A person in New Mexico is suspected of dying from an overdose of ivermectin, a state officia.....»»
Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round
Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking process. It’s a cycle that can lead to more expensive repairs and safety issues down the line, and no car owner likes that. Egypt and Dubai-based auto tech star.....»»
Cardiomatics bags $3.2M for its ECG-reading AI
Poland-based healthtech AI startup Cardiomatics has announced a $3.2M seed raise to expand use of its electrocardiogram (ECG) reading automation technology. The round is led by Central and Eastern European VC Kaya, with Nina Capital, Nova Capital and.....»»
New insights into bacterial photoreceptors: Similar structures, opposing functions
Sunlight influences an array of biochemical processes in plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. In numerous organisms, phytochromes—a special class of photoreceptors—absorb red or far-red light and transform it into signals that trigger correspond.....»»
Diamond Age raises $8M to speed up home construction with 3D printing and robot arms
Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Venture.....»»
Medical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed
Founders JT Garwood and Jack Miller started Bttn after seeing the challenges medical organizations had during the global pandemic to not only find supplies, but also get fair prices for them. Coming off a $1.5 million seed round in June, bt.....»»
Local ecological knowledge is useful for studying plant-animal interaction networks
Network studies focused on frugivory and seed dispersal commonly use frugivory censuses, camera trapping and fecal contents to build the interaction database. However, by using standard ecological methods, it's difficult to build quantitative interac.....»»
COVID-19 Vaccines May Trigger Superimmunity In People Who Had SARS Long Ago
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Almost 20 years before SARS-CoV-2, a related and even more lethal coronavirus sowed panic, killing nearly 10% of the 8000 people who became infected. But the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respirator.....»»
Sacklers say they won’t pay $4.5B settlement if judge rejects immunity deal
Deal lets family "walk away as billionaires with a legal shield for life," one AG said. Enlarge / Members of PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), Truth Pharm, and other advocacy groups working in response to the overdose crisis protes.....»»
B2B sales platform Accord adds $1M to seed round
Accord’s application provides shared next steps and milestones for buying and selling teams to align on so that the right people are looped in at the right time. Accord opened up its previously announced $6 million seed round to accept ov.....»»
Webiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS
Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. Today, Webi.....»»