13Apr
13Apr
Buffalo materials startup secures $28M Series B round
A local materials science startup has raised an eight-digit funding round to fuel growth. CleanFiber, which manufactures building insulation from recycled corrugated cardboard, recently closed a $28 million Series B equity funding round, according to a news release. The startup also secured a $31.5 million project financing facility. Read more >>
13Apr
CleanFiber wants to turn millions of tons of cardboard boxes into insulation
...Cardboard would seem like a perfect, paper-based solution to the insulation industry’s short supply, except there’s one problem: Corrugated boxes are riddled with contaminants like plastic tape, shipping labels and even metal staples. Transforming it into insulation is far more challenging than newsprint ever was. Yet one startup, CleanFiber, anticipated the shift and has been working on the problem for years. Read more >>
10Apr
Wasabi Technologies Introduces Wasabi AiR™, Pioneering Intelligent Media Storage for Sports, Media and Entertainment Industries
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today introduced Wasabi AiR™, the industry's first AI-enabled intelligent media storage. Wasabi AiR combines Wasabi’s high-performance, low-cost object storage with advanced AI metadata auto-tagging and multilingual searchable speech-to-text transcription. Video files uploaded to Wasabi AiR are immediately analyzed and a second-by-second metadata index is created, enabling users to quickly find what they are looking for. Wasabi AiR greatly reduces the cost of metadata creation: with Wasabi AiR, customers pay only for the storage....
03Apr
How this young man established a successful eco-friendly venture in India after quitting his US-base…
Rahul Singh, hailing from Chhattisgarh, received his education from top institutions like NIT. He secured a comfortable job in America and gained significant experience working in various companies. However, an incident prompted him to return to his homeland. Upon his return, he ventured into entrepreneurship and today, his company boasts a turnover of Rs 600 crore. Read more >>
03Apr
Quthero Welcomes Dr. Omar Ibrahimi as Chief Medical Director
Quthero, a pioneering biotech company renowned for its unique Q-peptide platform technology, welcomes Omar Ibrahimi, MD, PhD, a world-renowned dermatologist, to the Quthero team as their Chief Medical Director. Quthero's groundbreaking technology facilitates the complete regeneration of a patient's natural tissue with minimal scarring. Dr. Ibrahimi has served as Quthero's Clinical Advisor and was one of two physicians conducting Quthero's split-face clinical trial on the use of Quthero's post-procedure products on patients undergoing radiofrequency microneedling or laser face resurfacing. Read...
03Apr
Corbus Announces Dosing of First Patient in U.S. Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Its Next Generation Nectin-4 Targeting ADC
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRBP) (“Corbus” or the “Company”), a precision oncology company with a diversified portfolio, announced today the first patient in the U.S. has been dosed in the Phase 1 clinical trial of CRB-701 (SYS6002), a next-generation antibody-drug-conjugate (ADC) targeting Nectin-4. The Phase 1 portion of the open label study design (NCT06265727), being conducted in the U.S. and Europe, will evaluate the safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics (PK) of CRB-701 in participants with advanced solid tumors associated with...
02Apr
2024 Manufacturing Excellence Awards
The entire Central Massachusetts manufacturing industry has stayed surprisingly similar to its original role in the region. With $6.3 billion in annual economic output, manufacturing remains the largest industry in Central Massachusetts, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is why Worcester Business Journal chooses to honor the industry with our annual Manufacturing Excellence Awards, which are in their ninth year. WBJ likes to take a moment each year to highlight the best of the best. In addition...
02Apr
Manufacturing awards: Impermea is replacing plastics, by using safer coatings on recyclables
David Zamarin founded his first company, an early foray into nanotechnology - at age 15. He sold that company while still in high school, using the proceeds to research innovation on PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. That knowledge was used in the building of Impermea Materials. Ever since, the company has been innovating to meet demand – the demand of environmental hazards. Impermea makes advanced materials designed as alternatives to plastics and PFAS, which pose known risks to water...
28Mar