Prime Movers Lab Rundown: Pyka’s Cargo Plane, Investments in Regenerative Medicine & More
It was hard to miss Pyka’s Pelican Cargo plane this month. Pyka CEO Michael Norcia appeared on CNN and Fox Business to highlight how the company’s autonomous cargo plane could help communities impacted by disasters like the earthquakes in Turkey. Also, you don’t want to miss the latest headlines from across our portfolio this month, including our investments in Dimension Inx and Morphoceuticals as well as profiles of Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals in the Wall Street Journal and serial entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian in Bloomberg. Check out the latest below:
- Wall Street Journal: Wall Street Backs New Class of Psychedelic Drugs (Gilgamesh)
- Bloomberg: Space Mogul Becomes Multibillionaire With De-SPAC on Wild Ride (Axiom Space and Quantum Space)
- Bloomberg: Silicon Valley Startup Charts a Path to Cheaper EV Batteries (Lyten)
- Fox Business: Pyka’s Pelican Cargo debuts as the world’s largest pilotless Plane (Pyka)
- Forbes: This Robot Electric Cargo Plane Could Be The Start Of A Wave That Transforms Shipping (Pyka)
- Science: Startups try to turn laser fusion success into clean power plants (Focused Energy)
- Forbes: DARPA Gets Serious About Quantum: Five-Year Funding To Build Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers Goes To Atom Computing, Microsoft And PsiQuantum (Atom Computing)
- MIT Sloan: Does the US need a federal Department of Water? (Wacomet)
- Chicago Business Journal: Dimension Inx kicks off 2023 with funding to launch 3D-printed implants (Dimension Inx)
- Boston Business Journal: Tufts researchers’ limb-regeneration startup raises funding (Morphoceuticals)
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