Biotech & Life Sciences
AI in Pharma Gets a $25M Shot in the Arm
Converge Bio, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based startup, raised $25 million in a Series A round. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. TLV Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, and executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz also joined. The company uses AI to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs faster. The funding comes a year and…
Japanese Scientists Create Skin That Glows to Track Health
Japanese researchers might have found a new way to track health continuously. Instead of a smartwatch or a patch, they made skin that actually glows when certain internal molecules appear. You could say it’s like a living health monitor. The team, from Tokyo City University and The University of Tokyo, along with RIKEN and Canon…
