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One of the new things added into Stardew Valley with the 1.6 update is the Mastery System, which sees you using your EXP to unlock special items. Each category has its own items, but through the Foraging Mastery you can get the recipe for a Mystic Tree Seed. The Mystic Tree Seed can be planted to grow a ‘special tree’ that can be tapped, using the Tapper, to get Mystic Syrup. The Syrup sells for 1000 Gold, so it’s worth getting if you want to make some money.  How to get the Mystic Tree Seed recipe Screenshot by…

Rather than grimly assembling data about cancer deaths to predict outcomes in treatment, the founders of Cure51 had another idea. They decided to turn the model around 180 degrees. Instead, the company assembles data about long term survivors of cancer, thus hoping to crack the code on what keeps people alive. It’s now raised a €15 million Seed round led by Paris-based Sofinnova Partners. Other investors in this round included: Hitachi Ventures GmbH, Life Extension Ventures, Xavier Niel, and Olivier Pomel, CEO, and…

Astek Diagnostics closed a $2 million round for its urine diagnostics system, despite the fact that raising money for medtech isn’t for the faint of heart. The company’s deck has some good stuff in it and could be a deep source for things we can learn from, too. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that.  Slides in this deck Astek Diagnostics has a pretty beefy 22-slide deck that splits a lot of the narrative over multiple slides. In some…

Funding for startups in the first week of March fell 17.6% from the same period a year ago, totalling $121.2 million across 18 different deals.Companies in seed, early and late stages had raised about $147 million from 33 rounds during March 2 to March 8, 2023, as per data from Tracxn.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisit…

Dubai-based early-stage venture capital firm COTU Ventures is announcing that it has raised $54 million for its inaugural fund to support startups in the Middle East from pre-seed to seed stages. With a final close achieved last year, COTU Ventures, which identifies and backs founders from the inception to post-product launch, invests between $500,000 to $1.5 million as an initial check. Over the past two and a half years, COTU Ventures has actively deployed capital into startups across the GCC, focusing primarily on…

Temple offerings—miniature as well as food serving vessels, and a shell of marine mollusc, Tonna galea found in one of the temples. Credit: Prof. Aren Maeir The enigmatic Philistine culture, which flourished during the Iron Age (ca. 1200–604 BCE), profoundly affected the southern Levant's cultural history, agronomy, and dietary customs. More than a quarter century of excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath in central Israel,…

In the face of South Africa’s worsening energy crisis, marked by increasingly severe power shortages, implementing daily electricity rationing has become imperative to avert the risk of a nationwide grid collapse. According to the state-owned power generator Eskom, the country witnesses a significant power deficit, surpassing 6,000 megawatts on occasion. This situation is similar in most African countries, thereby increasing the demand for solutions provided by clean tech startups across the continent. In the latest…

Partech has closed its second Africa fund, Partech Africa II, at €280 million ($300 million+), just one year after reaching its first close. At that size, Partech Africa, which originally targeted €230 million before its fundraising efforts started, solidifies its position as the largest fund dedicated to African startups.  Amidst a backdrop of global VCs and institutional investors pulling back from Africa, Partech Africa’s recent fund closure is significant. The continent witnessed a notable decline in investor…

If you’re looking at the current seed funding climate and thinking it’s rough out there, you’re not alone. The last few years have been a roller coaster for startups. First came the uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic, then came the exuberance mid to late in the pandemic when cash flowed freely to startups of nearly every stripe. Seed funding sizes were up, and so were valuations. Today, things aren’t quite so copacetic. Money is tighter, and the hurdles for startups are higher. But…

A new study has revealed that the evolution of suberin lamellae in seed plants played a crucial role in their dominance over ferns in Earth’s changing climate. This discovery offers new insights into plant evolution and has significant implications for enhancing drought resistance in crops.A recent study published in Nature Plants by Chao Daiyin’s team at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Lyu Shiyou’s team at Hubei University, has revealed, for the first…