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Marching Towards Spring<\/h2>\n

Greetings and welcome back to the Springboard Corner, where we showcase and spotlight the latest achievements from life science and hi-tech startups that have been part of Connect’s Springboard program.<\/p>\n

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Company Updates & Milestones<\/h2>\n

Discover Echo <\/span><\/a>– Founded in 2013, and acquired by the BICO Group in 2021, they are a leader in developing innovative microscopes for biological research. They were the first to create hybrid automated microscopes, which could easily convert between an upright and an inverted configuration. A winner of numerous awards, they recently announced the launch of their new confocal microscope.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fabric8Labs <\/a>– An innovator of a novel non-thermal process to 3D metal printing, they recently closed their $50M Series B round. They plan to use these funds to construct a pilot facility to test out their Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing (ECAM) technology at a larger production scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GroupSolver<\/span><\/a> – A premier market research technology company which has developed an intelligent AI powered platform to develop innovative survey tools, recently raised a $2.82M round. The current round follows on a $2.5M round raised in June 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nascent Biotech<\/span><\/a> – A clinical stage biopharma company focussed on developing monoclonal antibody treatment for brain cancer, they recently announced the completion of their Phase-1 clinical trials. This is for their lead candidate, Pritumumab, which received orphan drug designation in 2015 by the FDA. Completing Phase-1 clinical trials is a major milestone. Next step for the company is for Phase-II consideration by the FDA.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you for reading along and stay tuned for more great news from Connect’s Springboard Companies!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marching Towards Spring Greetings and welcome back to the Springboard Corner, where we showcase and spotlight the latest achievements from life science and hi-tech startups that have been part of Connect’s Springboard program.   Company Updates & Milestones Discover Echo – Founded in 2013, and acquired by the BICO Group in 2021, they are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-623308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-springboard","tag-springboard-corner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSpringboard Corner: March 2023 - Connect Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Springboard Corner, highlighting recent milestones of life science and tech startups which participated in Connect\u2019s Springboard program.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.org\/springboard-corner-march-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Springboard Corner: March 2023 - 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