The Insider: Community Edition - July 2022
News & Announcements
Plant-based food developer Meati raises $150M in Series C funding
Meati Foods, a Boulder-based company that uses mushroom root to make protein-packed cutlets, has received a fresh $150M capital injection. With the new funding, Meati鈥檚 first order of business is to complete its first production facility, known as a Mega Ranch, in Thornton.
Artimus Robotics secures $3.5M in grants, contracts
Artimus builds actuator components for industries such as defense, automotive and medical devices. Its proprietary HASEL technology 鈥渁lready has shown incredible potential in many applications,鈥 said CEO Tim Morrissey. 鈥淭his capital will facilitate optimization of the technology for the best applications.鈥
ColdQuanta named a 2022 Best of Sensors Awards Winner
The global quantum ecosystem leader has been named a winner in the "Product Innovation: Instrumentation & Test" category of the 2022 Best of Sensors Awards from Questex for Maxwell, a Quantum RF Sensor Platform. The awards honor the best in sensor technologies, people and companies.
Emerging Innovations
Promoting ATP synthase using peptidoglycan muropeptides
With no known treatments for mitochondrial diseases or ATP synthase deficiency, the use of muropeptides as an ATP agonist is a significant discovery.
Methods, systems and compositions for the novel use of enterobactin to treat iron deficiency and related anemia
The newly discovered role of enterobactin in promoting mitochondrial iron uptake and animal health may present a potentially transformative treatment of nutrient deficiency disorder.聽