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Plant-focused startup The Sill raises $5M

[ad_1] The Sill, a startup that sells potted plants online and in physical stores, announced this weekend that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Raine Ventures. The company was founded in 2012 and has now raised a total of $7.5 million. It was bootstrapped until ...

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Elkrem is a blockchain dev board for tinkerers

[ad_1] Creators of the 1Sheeld, a tool designed to connect smartphones to Arduino boards, have created something even more interesting. Their latest product, the Elkrem, is a smart kit for creating blockchain IoT devices and they have raised $250,000 from Endure Capital and Consensys to build the project. The founders ...

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The world’s biggest plane now has some rockets to launch

[ad_1] Stratolaunch Commercial space company Stratolaunch turned a lot of heads last year when it pulled the wraps off the world’s largest airplane, which it says will one day help to launch satellites into space. Competing with the likes of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (a Boeing and ...

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Genetically engineered bacteria paint microscopic masterpieces

[ad_1] Scientists have used genetically engineered bacteria to recreate a masterpiece at a microscopic scale. By engineering E. coli bacteria to respond to light, they’ve guided the bacteria like tiny drones toward patterns that depict Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. It’s not artistic recognition they’re after. Rather, the researchers want ...

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