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It calls itself the “de-extinction” company and it has now taken upon itself, literally, a mammoth task. Last month, US bio-startup Colossal launched a project to regenerate the extinct woolly mammoth, or rather to create an elephant-mammoth hybrid with mammoth characteristics, through gene-sequencing and gene-splicing.
Colossal has raised $15 million in seed funding. The initial funding was led by Thomas Tull, who’s associated with funding movies like Dune, Jurassic World and The Dark Knight; some has come from bitcoin millionaires, and some from mainstream venture capitalists like Breyer Capital, Draper Associates, Animal Capital and At One Ventures, among others.
Colossal has raised $15 million in seed funding. The initial funding was led by Thomas Tull, who’s associated with funding movies like Dune, Jurassic World and The Dark Knight; some has come from bitcoin millionaires, and some from mainstream venture capitalists like Breyer Capital, Draper Associates, Animal Capital and At One Ventures, among others.
