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Sold off from Grainger this past September, the company is now China-owned and gaining momentum. May 13th, 2021 MyMRO Shanghai-based MyMRO — formerly Grainger China until Grainger sold off the unit in September 2020 — announced Wednesday that it has completed a new round of financing. The company said it has raised several hundred million yuan, or at least $30 million USD, in a B-round of financing led by China investment firm FountainVest Partners. Grainger first announced the Grainger Chi...

Sunrider Protects from the Sun with the Launch of Oi-Lin® Protective Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Torrance, CA, May 01, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Sunrider International, a global health and wellness direct sales company headquartered in Torrance, California, has recently released Oi-Lin® Protective Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30, an enhanced reformulation of its best-selling Oi Lin® Deep Moisture Lotion SPF 25. This new ultra-sheer formula has a lighter feel, better absorbency, and even ...

Exscientia CEO Professor Andrew Hopkins Dundee life sciences firm Exscientia has access to almost £400 million after its latest fundraising round. The Dundee University spin-out company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to design drugs. Its latest funding round raised $225m (£162m) with an additional $300m (£216m) available from SoftBank at Exscientia’s discretion. What will the money be used for? Chief executive Andrew Hopkins said the investment would be used to expand the firm’s drug ...

Exscientia Announces Investment of up to $525M Proceeds to continue expansion of proprietary pipeline and end-to-end AI drug discovery capabilities $225 million Series D round closed with access up to an additional $300 million at Exscientias discretion Financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Exscientia, a clinical stage pharmatech company using artificial intelligence (AI) to design patient-based drugs, announced that it has completed a $225 million Series D funding round. SoftBank Vision Fund...

Softbank leads $525m round in British drug developer Exscientia Exscientia chief executive Andrew Hopkins (Photo: Exscientia) British pharmaceutical company Exscientia has received funding from Softbank Vision Fund just a month after closing its last investment round.  Exscientia uses artificial intelligence to discover new drug molecules and has now designed two drugs that are in Phase 1 of clinical trials.  The Oxford-based company today announced it had completed a $225m S...

Place/Date: Palo Alto, CA - April 20th, 2021 at 8:56 pm UTC · 3 min read The proliferation of decentralized finance (DeFi) continues as a new unicorn is crowned: decentralized derivatives exchange Injective Protocol announced that it has closed $10 million, valuing the network over $1 billion. A group of prominent new and existing investors who participated in the round include Pantera Capital, BlockTower, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures (formerly BitMex Ventures), CMS, and QCP Capital. It was also...

Injective Protocol raises $10M from Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban for its ‘DeFi Robinhood’ Back in December last year Injective Protocol, launched the testnet for its DeFi protocols for cross-chain derivatives trading, with backing from giant crypto exchange Binance. It has now raised $10 million in a “party” funding round. Participating in the round was Pantera Capital, BlockTower, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures (formerly BitMex Ventures), CMS, and QCP Capital. Billionaire NBA team owner and ...

TSMC lifts spending and sales targets FUTURE GROWTH: TSMC chief executive officer C.C. Wei said customer demand for 3 and 5-nanometer technologies is so strong that it needs to spend on more capacity By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday raised this year’s capital expenditure to a record US$30 billion, as demand for advanced chips used in high-performance-computing (HPC) applications is str...

From Seeds and Roots to Healthy Fruits and Foods Chronicles Of A Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet On March 27 2020, less than a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID a global pandemic, the Ministry of Agriculture in St. Vincent & The Grenadines issued the following press release: Nine Foods As part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour COVID-19 Food Security and Risk Mitigation Plan, the availability o...

‘Seven Crops’ Project Trains Lettuce Farmers Share this post: In its continued efforts towards development of the agriculture sector, government is moving along to improve production of seven main fruits and vegetables. The Department of Agriculture in collaboration with the Taiwan Technical Mission through the “Enhancing the Efficiency of the Production-Distribution Supply Chain in the Fruit and Vegetable Sector” project, also known as the Seven Crops Project, hosted a training session...