| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.10.2025 | Deeptech startups impress juries across Switzerland |
Cradle and Oxyle have been name Norrsken VC’s Impact/100, an annual ranking by the Norrsken Foundation, which recognizes the 100 most promising impact startups from all over the world. Cradle Bio uses generative AI to help scientists desig... |
| 19.09.2025 | Adaptyv leaves the beta phase following its $8m seed round |
Epalinges-based Adaptyv Bio is on the mission to accelerate the design process for proteins, which today remains a long, very tedious, and expensive task as labs and companies lack the automation and data integration to perform repeatable,... |
| 13.02.2025 | Swiss startups and scale-ups join the EU AI Champions Initiative |
The EU AI Champions Initiative launched at the AI Action Summit in Paris, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, aims to position Europe as a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The initiative will foster collaboration acro... |
| 12.02.2025 | Europe’s AI Revolution: A €150 Billion Gamble for the Future | In the heart of Paris, a storm is brewing. The AI Action Summit has become the battleground for Europe’s ambition to reclaim its technological prowess. With a €150 billion investment on the table, the European Union is making a bold stateme... |
| 10.02.2025 | Europe’s AI push: €150 billion pledge to supercharge European AI startups | As the 2025 two-day AI Action Summit unfolds in Paris, a major push to position Europe as a global leader in AI is taking shape. The EU AI Champions Initiative, spearheaded by the global investment and transformation company General Catalys... |
| 23.12.2024 | Netherlands Based GenAI Bitotech Startup Cradle Raises $73M in Series B Round An Uber and Netflix VC backer invests. | Written by Akriti Seth
Cradle, a Netherlands-based generative artificial intelligence (genAI) biotech startup, has raised $73 million in a Series B funding round.
The round was led by Silicon valley VC firm IVP, which is famous for backing ... |
| 29.11.2024 | Cradle Secures $73M to Revolutionize Planetary Health with AI-Driven Protein Engineering | AI biotech company Cradle has raised $73 million in a Series B funding round led by IVP and backed by Index Ventures and Kindred Capital, bringing its total funding to over $100 million.
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Zurich, Swit... |
| 27.11.2024 | Cradle's Bold Leap: Revolutionizing Protein Engineering with AI | In the world of biotechnology, the race to innovate is relentless. At the forefront of this race is Cradle, a trailblazing company based in Amsterdam. Recently, Cradle secured a whopping $73 million in Series B funding, pushing its total fu... |
| 26.11.2024 | AI-driven protein discovery platform Cradle raises $73M
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One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, and r... | Cradle Bio B.V., a platform that accelerates the discovery of proteins using generative artificial intelligence models, announced today that it has raised $73 million to expand its lab and workforce.
The company’s Series B funding round was... |
| 26.11.2024 | Zurich-based Cradle raises €69.5 million to develop protein engineering with generative AI | Cradle, a Swiss platform for AI-powered protein engineering, has secured €69.5 million in a Series B funding round led by IVP, with participation from previous investors Index Ventures and Kindred Capital.
This investment brings Cradle’s to... |
| 26.11.2024 | Cradle raises $73m to accelerate adoption of AI-powered protein engineering |
Proteins are at the core of many products, from pharmaceuticals to food. However, traditional research methods for engineering better proteins have been slow, expensive, and unreliable. It can take years and many millions of dollars to run... |
| 26.11.2024 | Cradle Raises $73M in Series B Funding | Cradle, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based provider of a platform for AI-powered protein engineering, raised $73M in Series B funding.
The round was led by IVP with participation from previous investors Index Ventures and Kindred Capital.
... |
| 21.11.2024 | Startups gewinnen Digital-Awards |
Mit einem Digital Economy Award DEA werden Unternehmen ausgezeichnet, welche die Digitalisierung und digitale Transformation mit ihren Lösungen voranbringen. Unter den acht Gewinnerinnen und Gewinnern der diesjährigen Ausgabe sind wiederum... |
| 03.07.2024 | Announcing the finalists for the 6th annual VentureBeat AI Innovations Awards | We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More
As enterprise decision-makers get ready for VentureBeat’... |
| 20.05.2024 | SynBioBeta 2024: From novel hosts to ‘tricking’ cells to be more productive… addressing the ‘scale-cost paradox’ in biomanufacturing | Since insulin produced by genetically engineered bacteria—rather than the pancreases of slaughtered animals—was first approved in 1982, the market for ‘biomanufactured’ products produced by microbial, animal, or plant cells has grown rapidl... |
| 01.02.2024 | Giant Steps: In 2024, Turn Headwinds into Opportunity | The founders I work with know that I think about John Coltrane a lot. Lately I’ve been thinking about how he transformed jazz music with a harmonic progression known as “Coltrane changes.”
Popularized on his 1960 album Giant Steps, Coltran... |
| 30.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AgroSpheres nets $25m, ex-Motif CEO joins MycoTechnology, Kitchen United shuts ghost kitchens | All eyes are on COP28 this week, where agrifood looks to be a central point of discussion. Elsewhere in the industry, AgroSpheres raised new funds for its novel crop protection tech and Motif FoodWorks former CEO moved over to MycoTechnolog... |
| 29.11.2023 | Cradle raises $24m for GenAI biotech platform | |
| 28.11.2023 | Cradle raises $24M in Series A funding for Generative AI biotech platform | Cradle, a Netherlands-based biotech startup, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round, the company announced on Tuesday. Cradle uses generative AI to assist scientists in the design and engineering of proteins, aiming to significa... |
| 28.11.2023 | Dutch-Swiss startup Cradle raises €21.9M for pioneering Generative AI in protein design | Read this article in:
Amsterdam and Zurich-based Cradle, a biotech startup, has raised $24M (approximately €21.92M) in a Series A funding round. The company specialises in utilising generative artificial intelligence (AI) to assist scientis... |
| 28.11.2023 | Cradle Raises $24M in Series A Funding | Cradle, a Delft, the Netherlands- and Zurich, Switzerland-based biotech startup that uses generative AI to help scientists design and engineer proteins, raised $24M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $33M, was... |
| 27.11.2023 | Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding | Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment.
The company exited stealth a little over a year ago, just as the hype around l... |
| 18.08.2023 | Cradle: Help biologists design improved proteins in record time with AI | One of the most prominent advances in AI protein design is Cradle. Cradle is a tool developed by experts in the field that uses state-of-the-art algorithms to improve the protein design process. With Cradle, scientists can design proteins w... |
| 24.01.2023 | Ginkgo Bioworks Fires Up Its Bio Foundry To Take On The Billion-Dollar Enzyme Market | Ginkgo Bioworks banner on the façade of the New York Stock Exchange building.Ginkgo Bioworks |
| 30.12.2022 | Dutch-based biotech and life sciences startups that raised funding in 2022 | The Netherlands is swiftly rising to the top as a hub for healthcare and life sciences innovation. More and more Dutch startups are engaged in a range of cutting-edge initiatives, such as the creation of digital health tools, the developmen... |
| 18.11.2022 | Cradle Raises $5.5M in Funding | Cradle, a Delft, The Netherlands and Zurich, Switzerland-based biotechnology company, raised $5.5M in funding.
The round was led by Index Ventures, and Kindred Capital with participation from Feike Sijbesma, and Emily Leproust.
The company ... |
| 18.11.2022 | Cradle crawls out of stealth with $5.4M | |
| 17.11.2022 | Dutch-Swiss biotech startup Cradle comes out of stealth, bags €5.5M to design protein | Delft and Zurich-based Cradle, a platform that helps scientists design and program proteins, announced on Thursday that it has come out of stealth and raised €5.5M in a Seed round of funding.
The round was co-led by Index Ventures and Kindr... |
| 17.11.2022 | Startup Cradle Lets You Design Custom Proteins By Just Typing In A Prompt | Cradle Team at their site in the Netherlands.Cradle |
| 16.11.2022 | Protein programmers get a helping hand from Cradle’s generative AI | Proteins are the molecules that get work done in nature, and there’s a whole industry emerging around successfully modifying and manufacturing them for various uses. But doing so is time consuming and haphazard; Cradle aims to change that w... |
| - | Cradle | “Cradle helps biologists design improved proteins in record time using powerful prediction algorithms and AI design suggestions.” |
| - | Cradle | “Design better proteins” |
