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accelerating commercialization of biomaterials | formerly: VC🕵🏻‍♀️ - corporate👸🏻 - lab🐀 | nerdy about the intersection of science & tech | enthusiastic about plant-based deliciousness
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bold, but I like the confidence #thefutureiseurope

RT @ElliotHershberg
Hot take: the recent acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences by Merck for $11B should be counted as a win for TechBio 👀

You may be saying: that's not TechBio!1!1 😖

Consider suspending skepticism for this analysis:

RT @shelbynewsad
We're creating a collective at the intersection of *tech* and *bio* 🚀🧬

Folks interested in building ambitious companies at this junction should apply - https://tinyurl.com/2p882fzd

Check out our *new* thesis in generative AI/ML + bio here - https://tinyurl.com/2v6u7mzr

cc @FabioZB_I

Compound TechBio Collective

We're starting a collective specifically tailored for people building (or wanting to build) at the intersection of AI/ML and bio. This program kicks off with a breakfast on April 21st in NYC, a Discord community, quarterly 1-on-1 sessions to guide learnings and help make connections. We're also planning to have quarterly calls with those involved in the collective to specifically tailor the experience to the participants. If there are synergies with folks from our network, we'd be delighted to make introductions to potential co-founders! Read more on the Compound TechBio Collective here. Compound is a team spanning bio, AI/ML, and robotics (among other technical areas) and can help at any stage in your ideation process.

Google Docs

RT @NikoMcCarty
Announcing "Latest in Bio+Tech" 🧬

I've stopped sending out weekly paper lists through the newsletter. Now I'm adding new papers to an AirTable each weekend.

Topics include SynBio, CRISPR, Bio+AI & neurotechnology. I hope it's useful! LMK what I missed.

https://www.nikomccarty.com/latest/

Latest in Bio+Tech

Every weekend, I round up the latest papers in biology and technology as part of my work with Codon. Topics include: * Gene editing and regulation tools, such as CRISPR-Cas9 * Advances in DNA sequencing and synthesis * Medical breakthroughs, from vaccines to gene therapies * Computational tools to design DNA or proteins * Longevity

Niko.

RT @zavaindar
UPDATE: Today @nanli @AGoulburn & I are launching @_DimensionCap! A $350M venture fund, built to spec, to meet founders at the cutting most edges of technology & the life sciences 🚀🤖🧬

The world didn't need 'another venture firm'. An open letter to our future entrepreneurs: https://twitter.com/zavaindar/status/1501297099887022086

Zavain Dar on Twitter

“SOME NEWS: after a decade investing in the most brilliant interdisciplinary entrepreneurs on the planet, my best friends & partners @nanli @AGoulburn & I are joining forces on … *something new* ;) “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” - Anatole France”

Twitter
RT @instadeepai
Our mission to build AI that benefits everyone just took a giant leap forward! @BioNTech_Group is to acquire InstaDeep in a £362M deal🚀to accelerate AI-driven discovery, design & development of next-gen immunotherapies & vaccines at global scale!🌍1/N http://bit.ly/3VW5GLn
BioNTech to Acquire InstaDeep to Strengthen Pioneering Position in the Field of AI-powered Drug Discovery, Design and Development

BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech”) and InstaDeep Ltd. (“InstaDeep”) today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which BioNTech will acquire InstaDeep, a leading global technology company in the field of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”).

InstaDeep

RT @scienceisstrat1
Climate tech venture funding is exploding 🚀🚀

🔸 $70.1bn in 2022, up 89% from 2021
🔸 up 5.8x since 2017 and 44x since 2010

Cc: @Noahpinion @JesseJenkins @dwallacewells @ramez @paulg

RT @sethbannon
Introducing the Spinout Playbook, a free guide to spinning a startup out of academia.

https://fiftyyears.com/spinout

Why is this needed? The process of “spinning out” science from universities is broken 👇🧵

Spinout Playbook — Fifty Years

A guide to spinning out of academia

Fifty Years

RT @nathanbenaich
Launch article about @spinoutfyi dataset release comes in *top-3 most read* @Siftedeu articles in 2022 🔥

Shows you how important the community believes it is to enable spinouts from our universities!

👉 https://sifted.eu/articles/university-spinout-startups/

UCL and Oxford are Europe's 'worst universities for spinouts'

A new survey by Air Street Capital raises questions about the effectiveness of Europe’s university spinout system. 

Sifted

RT @doudna_lab
Doudna&
Bertozzi&
Arnold&
Nobel.

@CarolynBertozzi @francesarnold @NobelPrize