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It’s time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.
Databases have traditionally been designed either for analytical data or for operational data. But database engine CedarDB supports both, and its approach has gained relevance with the rise of agentic AI.
Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.
Fusion power plants will need a lot of lithium, and Licube is preparing to be a key supplier.
The San Francisco startup aims to help battery and chip manufacturers identify defects on production lines, reducing downtime and costly mistakes.
Flox’s edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.
Longshot is trying to build a gun big enough to make space data centers a reality.
As AI data centers and EVs drive up demand for copper, Giraffe Bio has unearthed a $6.4 million seed round to help miners extract more of the mineral.