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One year after funding: Startup advancements
A year ago, LAB+ Company Builder closed its first round of funding, securing $750,000 in financing for each of its first four startups. These companies used the investment to advance their science and technology. Scaffold Biotech, which is developing a vaccine to protect cattle from ticks, optimized the production of its components and tested...
Locbio’s Founder Named Coordinator of CEBEM
Felipe Trajtenberg, founder of the start-up Locbio, has been appointed as the new coordinator of the Structural Biology Center of Mercosur (Centro de Biología Estructurall del Mercosur, CEBEM). CEBEM is a collaborative network of scientific research groups working to advance structural biology and bioimaging capabilities in South America. It...
Guska’s Founders Take Part in Study Advancing COVID-19 Knowledge
Guska's founders, Gonzalo Moratorio and Pilar Moreno, took part in a study that demostrated that the presence of coronavirus viral particles in red blood cells could facilitate the spread of the disease and be a pathway for systemic invasion throughout the body, beyond the respiratory system as previously believed. The study, published in the...
In the Media:
Local
Forbes Uruguay – Interview with Carlos Batthyány about LAB+ and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo
Búsqueda – International call for startups, interview with Carlos Batthyány and Paul Elberse
En Perspectiva – Agustín Correa and Matías Machado, from Scaffold Biotech: Uruguayan company works with protein engineering to reach a ‘new frontier in vaccination’
Modo País (Channel 5) – Guska, created by Pilar Moreno and Gonzalo Moratorio
En Perspectiva – Felipe Trajtenberg, from LoCBio: reprogramming bacteria to treat colorectal cancer
La Diaria – What do the first four start-ups of the LAB+ seek to develop?
Telemundo (Channel 12) – Scaffold Biotech: more efficient vaccines for animals
En Perspectiva – Director of the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo talks about the LAB+ iniciative and Gonzalo Moratorio explains the science behind the start-up Guska
Subrayado (Channel 10) – LAB+ closed its first financing cycle
Radio Carve – Director of the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo talks about LAB+
La Diaria – Conversations with the first four biotech start-ups funded by LAB+
El País (Business) – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presented its first four start-ups
Uruguay XXI – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presented its first four start-ups
Telenoche (Channel 4) – Juan Pablo Tosar talks about the start-up B4-RNA
Ambito – The Institut Pasteur will invest US$25M in Uruguayan start-ups
El Observador – Four start-ups from the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo obtained financing for US$ 5 million: which are they?
Telenoche (Channel 4) – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presented its LAB+ Company Builder initiative
Montevideo Portal – The Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presents a program to support scientific-technological companies
International
Yale Podcasts – Interview with Gonzalo Moratorio, Guska’s founder
Tekios – LAB+ international call for scientific projects and start-ups
SwissInfo – LAB+ international call for scientific projects and start-ups
Latin American Post – LAB+ pioneers a new era of scientific start-ups in Uruguay and beyond.
Infobae – Closing of first round of financing for LAB+.
EFE – The Institut Pasteur de Montevideo presents LAB+, with four start-ups.
Investing – The Institut Pasteur de Montevideo launches the LAB+ iniciative.
ABC (Paraguay) – With four start-ups, the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo launches the LAB+.
Bloomberg – New Venture Capital Fund Eyes Latin American Science Start-ups.
Bloomberg online – New venture capital fund sets its sights on Latin American scientific start-ups.
Perfil – A new venture capital fund targets Latin American science.
iProUP – Support for startups: Ficus Capital, biotech fund, looks for unicorns in Latin America.
Yahoo Finances – Biotech fund seeks unicorns in LatAm.