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Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market

sudshr47 April 16, 2018

There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you. Lab-made leather replacements will soon join vegetable-based meat replacements on store shelves thanks to startups like Bolt Threads, which today announced that it would join companies like Modern Meadow in the […]

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Spider silk startup Bolt Threads closes on $123 million in Series D funding

sudshr47 January 3, 2018 Startups

Bolt Threads, the startup making spider silk from microbugs, has raised a giant $123 million Series D round of funding. As we reported in November, an SEC filing showed the company had raised $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8. Bolt now tells TechCrunch it has added to that amount, bringing up its total to $147 million raised so far. Read More

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Bolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8

sudshr47 November 9, 2017 Startups

Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk, is raising a whopping $106 million in Series D financing. Bolt Threads has been on …