Feature: artificial intelligence driving disease prevention, digital health enables personalised medicine, investment takes off
Category: Analysis
Industrials survive the pandemic
Sector analysis: Industrial
Analysis: E-commerce exits
The e-commerce space was given enormous boost by the covid-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders around the globe.
Korea corrals corporate venturers
Innovative region: South Korea
Analysis: Oscar goes public
Ping An and Alphabet-backed health insurer Oscar priced an upsized offering above its range to raise $1.44bn. The offering is part of the broader health space, which has seen many exits in the past years.
Analysis: Horizon Robotics captures $350m
AI chip developer Horizon Robotics raised a round backed by several automotive manufacturers, taking its overall funding to $900m in the past two months.
Analysis: SpaceX takes $850m round
Spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX reached a $74bn valuation, a more than sixfold increase on the $12bn it fetched when Google led a $1bn round in 2015.
How to orchestrate quantum computers
Q&A with Itamar Sivan, the co-founder of Israel-based quantum computer orchestration technology developer Quantum Machines.
Quantum computers poised to revolutionise chemistry
Nature’s laws of physics are difficult to replicate through an arrangement of binary computer switches, no matter how many of the switches we have access to.
Using the cloud to roll out artificial intelligence
Cloud servers can be thought of humanity’s first truly global infrastructure given they act as the bedrock for executing artificial intelligence (AI), or so went the argument in a November edition of The Economist.
Delving into DeepMind’s protein folding model
DeepMind Technologies’ achievement of applying machine learning to predict 3D protein structures has certainly got the scientific world excited, with some experts hailing a massive step forward for medical research.
Putting the silicon behind the hype
Feature: AI sector report
Corporate venturing kicks off cautiously in January
Monthly report: January 2021
Proterra opts for reverse merger
Mitsui, Edison Energy, BMW, Daimler, General Motors and Exelon-backed electric bus manufacturer Proterra achieved a $1.6bn enterprise value in the deal as special purpose acquisition companies take off in the sector.