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The Economist·May 31, 2026

Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity

TechCrunch·Feb 11, 2026

Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation | TechCrunch

Apptronik has raised another $520 million in a Series A extension to existing and new investors like Google and Mercedes-Benz.

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STAT·Nov 20, 2025

FDA approves Paradromics’ brain-computer interface trial for speech restoration

Paradromics received regulatory approval to test its BCI device in a small clinical trial to assess its safety and efficacy.

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techstartups.com·Sep 17, 2025

Colossal Biosciences raises $120M to revive the Dodo bird and other extinct species, hits $10.3B valuation

The dodo bird, last seen in the 17th century before Dutch sailors hunted it into oblivion, may soon waddle its way back into existence. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has secured an extra $120 million to push forward its headline-grabbing de-extinction projects—most famously, the resurrection of the dodo. The funding extends the company’s Series C round to

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time.com·Apr 7, 2025

The Return of the Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

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techcrunch.com·Jan 15, 2025

Colossal Biosciences raises $200M at $10.2B valuation to bring back woolly mammoths

Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth and has raised $200 million at a $10.2 billion valuation to do it.

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TechCrunch·Nov 12, 2024

Firefly Aerospace readies for a big year in orbit with $175M D round | TechCrunch

Firefly Aerospace has raised a massive late-stage funding round as it prepares for the launch of its lunar lander later this year and the first mission of

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Chicks hatch from artificial egg as biotech company aims to revive extinct species

Colossal Biosciences said over two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform it launched as a part of an effort to revive a large flightless bird that went extinct centuries ago.

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www.prnewswire.com

Colossal Biosciences Hatches First Chicks from Its Fully Artificial Egg System

/PRNewswire/ -- Colossal Biosciences, the world

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CNBC

Autonomous ship startup Saronic raises $1.75 billion in race to modernize U.S. military

Saronic's latest funding round more than doubles its valuation to $9.25 billion from the prior fundraising early last year.

MIT Technology Review

Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artificial eggshell

In an early step towards artificial wombs, a biotech company claims it’s developed a “fully artificial” chicken egg.

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The Berkshire Eagle

Biotech start-up Colossal Biosciences revives extinct species

De-extinction, the process of reviving extinct species using advanced scientific techniques, is a growing field that represents the meeting point of several scientific pursuits, including biotechnology, ancient genomics, cloning and

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