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AltaClaro, the leading experiential training platform for lawyers, secures $2.5M series seed preferred financing round to expand unparalleled training & development platform for the legal industry. The financing round was led by Bryce Catalyst, a leading legal tech fund whose General Partner Cary Burch is the former Chief Innovation Officer of Thomson Reuters. Learn more here.
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Mi Terro is a company that takes agricultural waste and processes it into proteins that can be used as a plastic replacement, animal feed and much more. The company just raised $1.5 million to start scaling up production. Astanor is the lead investor in Mi Terro’s $1.5 million round, which valued the company at $10 million. Read more here.
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Modality.AI, Inc., a San Francisco digital health startup that has developed a conversational AI system remotely assessing neurological disorders using speech and facial gestures, announced today the acquisition of Grey Matter Technologies (GMT), whose NLP technology interprets patient-reported symptoms of neurological diseases. Full article here.
We are excited to announce our partnership with Sunstone Management (Sunstone) to support the next cohort of startup founders in our 2022 program. Sunstone, with the Sunstone Venture Capital Fund, is a diversified private capital firm based in Southern California that invests in diverse early-stage technology entrepreneurs. Read more here.
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We are very proud of Eddie Yang and Yaxi Yang, the founders of Visual Feeder, our Batch 8 portfolio company, for raising $1.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Sandalphon Capital and Blue Field Capital, with participation from Techstars and numerous strategic angel investors. More about the news here.
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Congratulations to Cargofy, our Batch 4 portfolio company, for raising $2 million in seed funding, led by JKR Investment Group, and joined by Flyer One Ventures and a number of angel investors. Read more about the news here.
With a focus on mentorship and support, Lair East Labs has been included on a list of 23 startup accelerators in the U.S. These companies support founders through building network connections, mentoring in business and helping secure seed funding.
Lair East Labs and Taiwan’s innovation social platform, Meet Startups, jointly held their third “Meet Accel Acceleration Program” event. Eleven Taiwanese startups entered the program with the chance of winning a round-trip ticket from Taipei to New York, have US interview opportunities and be connected to Lair East Labs’ international resources.
With plans to set up a base in the US to grow vegetables for local supply, the Aeroponics developer Airtree won an innovation award at Meet Accel. This was a program jointly held by Lair East Labs and Taiwan’s innovation social platform, Meet Startups. Airtree will now go to Lair East Labs’ accelerator in New York City.
After a worldwide study of startup accelerators, Lair East Labs has been included in a list of 100 noteworthy accelerators. Most well-known tech companies in the world went through startup accelerators, and the grants, community and mentorship benefits are often invaluable.
