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Avalyn Pharma operates a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and severe respiratory diseases, enabling medical professionals to reduce risks associated with oral treatments and likely improving efficacy. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series D
Round Investors: SR One (lead), Suvretta Capital Management (lead), Piper Heartland Healthcare Capital, Hamilton Square Partners Management
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its inhaled versions of approved lung disease meds.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Fierce Pharma
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 49 (⚡17% increase in last 6 months)
Phlow provides low-cost pharmaceuticals and reduce dependency on foreign supply chains, allowing practitioners to provide essential medicines to their patients. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $37M, Series C
Round Investors: Align Private Capital (lead)
🚀 Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion across U.S.-based development, manufacturing, and digital infrastructure, with a focus on scaling technology-driven innovation, including AI-powered systems and new pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies.
Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs
HQ: Richmond, VA
Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 106 (⚡20% increase in last 6 months)
Reka AI develops multimodal large language models to create enterprise-grade production models from their foundation, enabling businesses to use AI to automate tasks, generate creative text formats of text content, and translate languages, all through an intuitive and user-friendly interface. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $110M, Series B
Round Investors: NVIDIA (lead), Snowflake (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate technical development on its models and scale its multimodal platforms, aiming for wider enterprise adoption and expansion of its global reach.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 57 (⚡14% increase in last 6 months)
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