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UK biotech investment at record levels amid COVID-19

New figures have confirmed that the UK’s biotech sector received a massive boost from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, with investment levels soaring to £2.8 billion ($3.8 billion) from a l

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Olive Tree Ventures closes $170m dedicated digital health fu...

Israel’s specialist venture capital firm, Olive Tree Ventures (OTV) has closed a fund worth $170 million, with plans to expand its portfolio of digital health firms.

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Agents for change: the women breaking through in life scienc...

For a long time, venture capital (VC) firms have been controlled mainly by men. But things are changing and women are becoming more influential in life sciences VCs, with an increase in bu

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COVID-19 is causing a renaissance in the UK biotech sector, ...

Despite the UK’s world class research output and the many start-ups successfully spinning out from its academic institutions, in recent years UK biotech companies have struggled to access t

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Cerner and LRVHealth invest $6m in digital health firm Xealt...

Health technology firms Cerner and LRVHealth have invested $6 million in Xealth to scale up its business offering digital health tools to patients and clinicians.

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