By Brent MacDonald – Principal @ Rising Tide VC Molecular Assemblies announced that it closed an oversubscribed $24 million Series A financing. Proceeds of the financing will be used to advance the company’s proprietary enzymatic DNA synthesis technology toward early commercialization efforts. Molecular Assemblies also announced the company’s participation in a new project with a multidisciplinary […]

The company behind the NBA’s NFT trading cards raises over $300 million in its latest round By Brent MacDonald – Principal @ Rising Tide VC Dapper Labs, the blockchain company behind the NBA’s collectibles marketplace ‘Top Shot’, closed a major round of funding toward its goal: NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) for all. The company announced this […]

Rising Tide Newsletter Welcome to the Rising Tide 1st Quarter 2021 Newsletter that highlights updates from our 70+ companies whose stories will inspire you. We hope you’ll enjoy and as always, send us your suggestions info@rtf.vc We look forward to your feedback and everlasting cooperation. CEO SPOTLIGHT Andrew Butt, the Co-founder & CEO of Enable, a […]

By Brent MacDonald – Principal @ Rising Tide VC As biology pervades many aspects of life, advanced automation tools are in demand. Volta Labs is an MIT Media Lab spin-off company that makes programmable fluidic chips for biological automation. To build this next generation automation tool, the Volta Labs team combines principles of computing with material […]

By Brent MacDonald – Principal @ Rising Tide VC Unnatural Products mission is solving the problem of ‘undruggable’ proteins—the roughly 80% to 90% of proteins in the body that have eluded drug makers. Some proteins are inaccessible because they lack a binding “pocket” where drugs can dock. What is more, traditional drug development approaches are […]

By Brent MacDonald – Principal at Rising Tide VC Precision Nanosystems Inc’s (PNI) mission is to accelerate the creation of transformative medicine that significantly impacts human well being. The Company creates end-to-end solutions that empower researchers to harness powerful nanotechnology to transform our understanding and treatment of rare diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases. Leading academic institutions, […]