UMB-born artificial lung startup raises $6 million

Boston-based Cogito Corp., an MIT-born company that puts artificial intelligence technology to work in call centers, has topped off its Series C funding round with $8 million, in part from new investors Hearst Ventures and Battery Ventures. The.....»»

A University of Maryland, Baltimore-born medical device startup that has been developing a kind of artificial lung was acquired by publicly traded health technology firm Abiomed. Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD) announced Thursday its acquisition of Breethe In.....»»

Molekule, a tech startup born out of University of South Florida research, has closed another multimillion-dollar investment round. The San Francisco-based company with a focus on clean technology raised $58 million this week. "The air purifier marke.....»»

Artificial intelligence computing firm SambaNova Systems said on Tuesday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by BlackRock Inc to expand its customer base, reflecting investors' appetite for the market......»»

A Chicago startup that uses artificial intelligence to identify firearms in security camera video feeds just raised a round of funding to improve its tech. Aegis AI announced that it has raised $2.2 million in funding from Bling Capital, Upside Partn.....»»

Less than a year after raising more than $20 million, startup OJO Labs has added $45 million more to the bank. The company is on a mission to make artificial intelligence a critical part of the home-buying process......»»

Boston-based Cogito Corp., an MIT-born company that puts artificial intelligence technology to work in call centers, has raised $37 million in a round led by the growth equity division of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). Cogito has now raised more than $.....»»

Boston-based DataRobot Inc. is the latest Massachusetts startup to raised a $100 million round in 2018, bringing its lifetime funding to $225 million. The artificial intelligence company on Wednesday announced a Series D round led by Meritech and .....»»

Artificial intelligence startup Wave Computing Inc. this week raised $86 million in a Series E round and unveiled plans to move into new headquarters in downtown Campbell. The company plans to move from its current headquarters on West Campbell Av.....»»

Plantation-based CarePredict, a startup that employs artificial intelligence to predict declining health in seniors, recently secured $9.5 million in funding. The round was led by Miami-based Secocha Ventures, Fort Lauderdale-based Las Olas Venture.....»»

A fintech startup that spun out of Chicago-based Avant has raised a mega-round of funding, valuing it at $1 billion and making it Chicago's latest "unicorn" company. Amount announced Tuesday that it raised $100 million in a Series D round led b.....»»

The startup has raised about $48 million since its founding in 2014......»»

A Durham biotech startup that spun out of Duke University has raised $7 million in seed funding to scale up its purification technology for biotherapeutics. Isolere Bio Inc. announced Wednesday it has raised $7 million in equity from lead inve.....»»

A gene therapy startup that launched last summer has raised $120 million toward expanding its biotech manufacturing capacity in Grove City. It's the largest Series B financing in Ohio history, according to PitchBook......»»

Cultured Decadence, a Madison startup specializing in cell-cultured seafood products such as lab-grown lobster meat, said it has closed a $1.6 million pre-seed round of funding. The round was led by investors including Bluestein Ventu.....»»

Atlanta data privacy and security startup OneTrust LLC raised $210 million, according to an April 6 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.   The filing comes weeks after OneTrust, which has a valuation of more than $5.....»»

When it was founded back in 2018, Entrada raised $59 million, which was the largest amount raised in an initial financing round for an OSU startup......»»

Cameo, the Chicago-based startup that lets users buy video shout-outs from celebrities, has banked $100 million in Series C funding -- which the company says gives it a “.....»»

A Chicagoland medical device company raised a new round of funding as it works to help physicians better visualize their patients during surgery. Augmedics announced Tuesday that it raised $36 million in a Series C round led by H.I.G. Capita.....»»

The investment builds on a $25 million round the student loan startup closed in January......»»