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Arcturus Therapeutics Raises $8.

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A diverse syndicate of investors, including Initialized Capital, 1517, Toyota Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, and Climate Capital, has backed Arcturus Therapeutics with $8.0M in Seed funding. The San Diego-based messenger RNA medicines company, founded in 2013, specializes in developing therapeutics for liver and respiratory rare diseases.

Arcturus is notable for its LUNAR® lipid-mediated delivery and STARR® mRNA technology, which underpinned KOSTAIVE®, the world's first approved self-amplifying messenger RNA COVID vaccine. The company's extensive patent portfolio and ongoing collaborations, such as with CSL Seqirus for pandemic flu, highlight its established position in the RNA therapeutics space.

Today, after about a year and a half of heads-down work, I’m excited to announce that Arcturus is emerging from stealth with an $8M seed round led by Initialized Capital with participation from 1517, Toyota Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, and Climate Capital.

This all started with a realization that I couldn’t shake: the world’s asking more and more from metals that were never designed for the systems we’re building today. EVs, drones, robotics, AI data centers, the grid. The modern world runs on copper and aluminum doing their job quietly in the background. But as power, heat, and performance demands keep rising, those materials are becoming a bottle

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