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Arduino Announces $22M in Additional Funding to Support Enterprise and Cloud Expansion

The global leader in empowering makers and students with accessible technology capitalizes on its ability to attract enterprise customers with its radically innovative industrial-grade PRO line.
New investments bring the total Series B funding amount to $54 million.
CDP Venture Capital, Italy’s largest VC firm, and previous investor Anzu Partners co-led, with Arm following up on their earlier investments.

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Excision BioTherapeutics Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for EBT-101, a First-in-Class CRISPR-Based Gene Therapy Candidate to Functionally Cure HIV-1

EBT-101 is a potentially curative, one-time CRISPR-based treatment which makes two cuts in integrated retroviral DNA to remove large portions of the HIV genome and prevent HIV from escaping and reproducing
Excision’s ongoing Phase 1/2 trial is the first clinical evaluation of a CRISPR-based therapy targeting an infectious disease using a multiplexed in vivo gene editing approach
HIV-1 affects 38 million people worldwide, including 1.1 million in the US, with no available cures

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