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LAB+ is in the process of selecting new scientific projects
LAB+'s team is in the process of selecting new scientific projects to support and invest in. An international call for start-ups and scientific projects was launched in August. It received a total of 52 applications from 8 countries. Since then, the LAB+ team has pre-selected 18. These projects are led by world-class scientific teams with...
Scaffold Biotech at National Event on Tick Control
Agustín Correa and Matías Machado, the scientists who founded the start-up Scaffold Biotech, represented the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo at the National Tick Control and Management Update conference, which was organized by the Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries in early August. Scaffold Biotech is one of the start-ups...
LAB+ opens second international call for start-ups and scientific projects
LAB+ Company Builder has launched a new international call for scientists with an original, disruptive, and innovative project with significant commercial potential. This is the second call since the creation of LAB+, which already boasts a portfolio of four companies: B4-RNA, Guska, LoCBio and Scaffold Biotech. Selected start-ups in this call...
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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
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.