Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Biotech startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in October 2024
Investor | Biotech investments |
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Jonathan Milner | 31 |
Milad Alucozai | 21 |
Jude Gomila | 12 |
Jaffray Woodriff | 10 |
Paul Buchheit | 10 |
Jeff Dean | 10 |
Kingsley Advani | 9 |
Jim Mellon | 9 |
bumpkins profile | 9 |
Alice Zhang | 8 |
Bradley Horowitz | 7 |
Chris Gibson | 7 |
Wei Guo | 7 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 6 |
Sahin Boydas | 6 |
Evan Cheng | 6 |
Zach Weinberg | 6 |
Bill Gates | 6 |
Jeff Hammerbacher | 6 |
Nadav Rosenberg | 6 |
Sam Altman | 5 |
Erik Peterson | 5 |
Anne Wojcicki | 5 |
Mark Cuban | 5 |
David R. Walt | 5 |
Kevin Moore | 5 |
Cory Levy | 5 |
Peter Thiel | 5 |
Charlie Songhurst | 5 |
Brian Armstrong | 5 |
Farzad (Zod) Nazem | 5 |
Stefano Bernardi | 5 |
Daniel Curran | 5 |
Elad Gil | 5 |
T. Chen Fong | 4 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 4 |
Darrin Disley | 4 |
Todd Corenson | 4 |
Brad Flora | 4 |
Ling Wong | 4 |
Andrea Dusi | 4 |
Ian Hogarth | 4 |
Tom Williams | 4 |
Eric Kwan | 4 |
Penny Schiffer | 4 |
Jack Abraham | 4 |
David Beyer | 4 |
Ethan Oren Perlstein | 4 |
Daren Cotter | 4 |
Xavier Niel | 4 |
Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
- Constructive Bio — Constructive is a ground-breaking method for creating wholly artificial genomes and rewriting the genetic code of living things.
- LIfT BioSciences — LIfT BioSciences is a socially-minded Biotech start-up that develops a portfolio of potentially life-saving immuno-oncology cell therapies for different solid tumors using its innate immunity platform. Its goal is to create a Cell Bank with the potential to cure cancer, using Leukocyte Infusion Therapy.LIfT BioSciences was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in London, England.
Dr. Milad Alucozai is an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, biotech executive, and global investor with nearly two decades of experience in deep tech, primarily in life sciences. He pushes the boundaries of bioengineering and computational advancements, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into biology and medicine.With a strong commitment to commercializing transformative technologies and fostering startup ecosystems worldwide, he is a thought leader and formal mentor for entrepreneurs through organizations like Creative Destruction Lab and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.Currently, Milad is the head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, where he spearheads the firm’s investments in early-stage companies with breakthrough scientific ideas. With nearly 80 early-stage investments, they are recognized as one of North America’s most active venture firms. He is also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund that has built over 500 companies from scratch with an enterprise value of $10bn. He supports founders with strategy, scaling, business development, securing growth capital, and leadership training, often being their first investor and guiding them from startup inception to IPOs or acquisitions.He started his career in translational neuroscience and multiphysics laboratories before transitioning into founding roles at biotech startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform to support the future of cell and gene therapies. He was also part of the founding team at Corstem, which specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence software and was later acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform in over 1000 hospitals and more than 40 countries. At Accenture, Milad directed teams of data scientists, designers, and engineers in developing artificial intelligence platforms for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.Milad serves as a Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. In 2020, he served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca. He was recognized as a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his master’s in Immunology and earned his doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
- Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Angel Investor located in Charlottesville, VA
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yogi — Yogi's analytics platform lets you easily sift through customer Reviews & Ratings data. Get actionable insights from your product Reviews, Ratings, and Sentiment Analysis to improve your brand reputation and product experiences.
- Caju AI — Caju AI revolutionizes customer engagement with Generative AI, boosting your workforce's productivity and providing invaluable business insights. Elevate your customer experience with the power of AI.
- Starchive — AI enriched Digital Asset Management designed by creators for creators, to maximize the control and ownership of their content, community, and commerce in the Visual Media Economy.
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks. He has co-designed /implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a codesigner and coimplementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open-source system for machine learning.Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Japan, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Letta — Letta specializes in memory management technology, enabling AI models to remember users and conversations. Its featured products include Hosted Cloud and Lett_ API. Hosted Cloud creates, deploys, and manages agents at scale with Letta Cloud. Also, its Lett_ API adds memory to LLM services to give them reasoning capabilities and transparentlong-term memory powered by MemGPT.
- Resolve.ai — Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
- VerifAI — VerifAI is building the worlds first AI Test Engineer, using the collective intelligence of Multiple Language Models and Reinforcement Learning. VerifAI's mission is to speed up software and hardware verification by 100X using AI to generate accurate tests, stimuli, code, and fix bugs automatically as no human can.
Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
- Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.
Jim Mellon is an international investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford, where he studied PPE, (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he worked in Asia and the United States for two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. His business operations include two components, alisted fund management company called Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific.In addition, Mr. Mellon is Co-Chairman of West African Minerals Corporation and Regent Pacific Group. He is on the board of a number of public quoted companies, including Brazilian Gold Corporation, Charlemagne Capital Limited, Manx Financial Group, Plethora Solutions, Polo Resources, Port Erin Biophara Investments Limited, and the Speymill plc. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it. Mr. Mellon lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza and is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Voxia — Amy collects and analyzes information from all over the web and provides actionable insights about your leads, prospects and clients, all in one click.
- Monaco Foundry — We are a team of Serial Entrepreneurs, former Senior Government Advisors and Fortune 500 Executives. A global venture accelerator that invests in early to mid-stage companies and their growth through a unique sweat equity model.
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
- Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
CEO and Co-founder at Verge Genomics; Angel Investor in Tech-Enabled Bio
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Encellin — Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Ochre Bio — Ochre Bio is developing therapies for the biggest liver health challenges.
- Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mill — Meet the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food waste at home. Mill recycles your peels, bones, stalks, and forgotten leftovers.
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
Chris Gibson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion (Recursion Pharmaceuticals). He previously worked at Cure HHT as a Member Board of Directors. Chris Gibson attended the University of Utah.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
- Series A, Seed
- United States, France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Amenities Health — Discover your dedicated Digital Front Door platform that enhances the patient experience and foster brand loyalty.
- Cradle — Design better proteins
- Leash Biosciences — We're transforming drug design with a rich dataset built by screening millions of compounds against thousands of protein to generate billions of data points, ideal for training advanced machine learning models.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
- Fal.ai — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
Sahin Boydas is the Head of Turkiye, Distributed Teams, Bootcamp, and App Eco for Gusto. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com as a CEO and Founder. Sahin Boydas attended Koç University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Modus — Modus brings finance, HR, and hiring managers to detect, inspect, and correct their workforce plans - in one unified workflow. Hire and retain only the people you need, without the extra bloat.
- Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
- Permanent — Permanent grows, supplies, & distributes regenerative, organic, & differentiated produce. We optimize cost, quality, & impact for foodservice, CPG, & retail.
Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- PARSIQ — Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
- PIN AI — PIN AI democratizes personal on-device intelligence for everyone; transform your digital footprints into your Personal Executive Assistant.
- Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
Before co-founding Flatiron, Zach was Co-Founder, President and COO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Zach co-foundedEatNow.com which was privately acquired. An active angel investor, Zach has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough.com, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Zach studied economics and entrepreneurship at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
- Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes
- Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Series C, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
- Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
- Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.
Jeff Hammerbacher - Partner & Co-Founder @ Techammer
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vectara — SaaS
- Modal Labs — Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine.
- All Hands AI — All Hands AI operates as an open source agent for developers.
Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
- Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
- Loops — With Loops causal insights you can identify your biggest opportunities to maximize your KPIs... try the Loops way
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019.
Sam Altman attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- APEX — Use Apex AI Security Platform to drive your organisation at the speed of AI, agentlessly. Unleash AI securely, with visibility, detection, and remediation. (156c)
- ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- United States, Canada, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
- Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
- Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
- Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Anne Wojcicki is the Co-Founder and CEO of 23andMe. She previously worked at Passport Capital as a Healthcare Analyst. Anne Wojcicki attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
- Brightside Health — Get anxiety and depression treatment online from licensed psychiatric providers and therapists. No need to wait, start a free consultation online today.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
- DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
- TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
David is Professor in the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. David is the Scientific Founder of Illumina Inc. and Quanterix Corp and has co-founded several other life sciences startups. David has published over 300peer-reviewed papers and has over 75 issued US patents. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical microwell arrays and single molecules including the American Chemical Society Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success, Ralph Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Gustavus John Esselen Award, Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, and the ACS National Award for Creative Invention. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Chemical Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook, and did postdoctoral studies at MIT.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vizgen — The next generation of genomics, expanding the impact of spatial context and demonstrating the potential of in situ single-cell spatial genomics.
- Stoicheia — Mattiq delivers innovative electrochemical solutions to decarbonize the fundamental building blocks that power our world.
- Torus Biosystems — Torus Biosystems offers an apparatus for DNA testing for scientific and medical research purposes in the fields of consumer products, food for human beings or animals, hygienic and beauty care for human beings or animals, agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
- SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
- Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.
Cory Levy is the Founder Advisor of Humaning.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Omen AI — Coming Soon....
- Friend — Friend creates a toy companion that promotes self-esteem through meaningful discussions.
- Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.
Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
- Enhanced Games — Enhanced Games Home
- Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
- Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
- Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Brian Armstrong is the CEO and Co-founder of Coinbase, the world’s leading digital currency exchange. As CEO, Mr. Armstrong is responsible for Coinbase’s retail and institutional arms and all products and services that are developed by both trading platforms. Mr. Armstrong co-founded Coinbase in June 2012, and since then, has been responsible forintroducing much of America and beyond to cryptocurrency. Mr. Armstrong has led the team, now at over 200 employees, through over $200M in funding from leading investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, USV, DFJ and NYSE. Since co-founding the company, Mr. Armstrong has led Coinbase to serve over 10M customers across 32 countries, providing custody for more than $10B in digital assets. Mr. Armstrong was listed as Fortune 40 under 40 and Recode 100 in 2017.Before founding Coinbase, Mr. Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at Airbnb from 2011-2012 as part of the hospitality marketplace, focusing on fraud prevention. At the time, Airbnb was moving money between 190 countries, and Mr. Armstrong had a front row seat into global payment systems.Previously, he worked as a Developer for IBM and Consultant at Deloitte.Mr. Armstrong holds three degrees from Rice University: Bachelor’s of Computer Science, Bachelor’s of Economics, and a Master’s of Computer Science.
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- Payments, Financial Services, Banking
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil
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- Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
- Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
- Orchid — Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders. Orchid’s preconception system analyzes both partners’ genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to common diseases, including heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Orchid results are developed withworld-class experts in reproductive medicine and genetics to give its clients the most accurate results.Orchid offers a “Couple Report” that utilizes an at-home saliva test to analyze each person’s genomes to detect the probability of genetic risks, then models how their DNA together will combine in a future child. If elevated risk is detected, Orchid provides insights to help couples monitor biomarkers, adapt their diet or elect for procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. It was founded by Noor Siddiqui in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.
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- Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
- Ceevra — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
- TigerGraph — TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360,recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Norway
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- Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
- Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
- Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Dr. Fong is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Fong is active in funding and nurturing start-up companies. Over the past two decades, he funded over 50 companies in diverse technology sectors,with an emphasis in medical devices. Dr. Fong is the co-founder and board member of Calgary Scientific Inc. and is also on the board of Clarius Mobile Health, Cohesic Inc. and Innovere Medical. In addition to seed investing, Dr. Fong is active in the Calgary community sitting on six charitable boards and foundations.In 2015, Dr. Fong joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto business school as a mentor. CDL helps young entrepreneurs to shape or pivot their nascent ideas. He is widely credited with launching CDL at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, bringing together seasoned business leaders from Alberta, Canada and the US to grow budding companies. Dr. Fong is on the Strategic Advisory Board of CDL and a Fellow of CDL in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. In 2017, Dr. Fong was named to the Order of Canada for his contribution to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Singapore, United States
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- Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
- SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
- EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers.
Bhavik Bajaj
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- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
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- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Darrin Disley is the CEO, Director & Investor at Mogrify. He attended University of Cambridge.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
- Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
- Desktop Genetics — Desktop Genetics is an international biotechnology company established in 2012 to help researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease. Today, Desktop Genetics is a recognised leader in genome editing technology, staffed by dedicated team of genome editing experts, bioinformaticians and data scientists, driven by thereal-world impact of CRISPR technology.They have invested four years developing their core technology, DESKGEN AI, trained on the largest database of genome editing data in the world. DESKGEN AI powers their flagship DESKGEN CRISPR Library product range, which enables the work of their pharma, biotech and academic customers working in drug discovery and functional genomics. Desktop Genetics' tools and technologies are used by over 1800 organisations all over the world, and their projects contribute directly to several key partnerships to bring CRISPR into the clinic. The company has received awards from Fast Company, Kairos 50 and SxSW Interactive.
Todd Corenson - Founder @ Enlon
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- Biotechnology, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States
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- Solugen — Solugen's mission is to decarbonize the chemicals industry. Solugen combines synthetic biology with metal catalysis to make carbon negative chemicals at scale.Solugen's patented approach takes advantage of bio-inspired reactions to use plant material as a low-cost feedstock to produce novel products cost-competitive with thecompetition.
- HelixNano — Helix Nanotechnologies uses artificial intelligence to help cure genetic diseases. HelixNano is a Y Combinator and venture backed biotech startup. At HelixNano, we have spent the last two years developing cancer vaccines. Now we are adapting our synthetic biology arsenal to take on COVID-19. We’re moving fast but thinking long-term. We’re alreadytesting COVID-19 vaccine candidates designed to be precise and safe. Our next goal is to create a vaccine that protects everyone not only from this virus, but all future coronaviruses.
- iMicrobes — We are a synthetic biology company on the mission to work with the world's largest companies to use new raw materials and recycle waste for chemical production, polymers, agriculture, and space exploration.
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
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- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
Dr. Ling Wong is Founder and General Partner of Highbury Group and Sea Lane Ventures. She also serves as Senior Advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners. Highbury Group was founded on the principle to be a true partner and champion to entrepreneurs, using science and technology to build companies that fundamentally transform the world for thebetterment of humanity today, and in the future.Dr. Wong draws from her unique background and experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor to support and bring to market companies that exist at the intersection between health and technology. “I love to partner with mission-oriented founders working on transformational ideas that can have a positive, lasting impact on society – and do so by leveraging technology and science in a financially sustainable manner,” said Dr. Wong.Prior to Highbury, she served at the Gates Foundation where she helped to establish a $1.5B global investment portfolio and created a $200M early stage program to support early stage entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries.As a health and technology investor, Dr. Wong has been involved in some of the market’s most significant investments and exits. She has partnered with over fifteen $1B+ companies, including: Devoted Health, Orca Bio, Collective Health, Color, Apeel, Shape, Stripe, Offer Up, Rappi, Branch Metrics, Notion, Modern Animal, Wheel and Satellite Bio. Notable exits include: Anacor Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer for $5.2B), Genocea Biosciences (NASDAQ: GNCA), Visterra (acquired for $430M), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and recently Singular Genomics (NASDAQ: OMIC).Dr. Wong holds a PhD from Harvard in Engineering Sciences, a BSc in Chemical Engineering and BSc in Biology from MIT. During her time at Harvard, she created the world’s first inhaled TB vaccine. Her scientific training has shaped how she assesses financial opportunities, both to create value and to benefit human health. Dr. Wong has always been passionate about seeking entrepreneurs and partners that are looking to disrupt the status quo in science and technology for the betterment of society.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Colombia
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- Satellite Bio — Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases.
- Devoted Health — Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.
- Shape Therapeutics — Shape Therapeutics (ShapeTX) is a biotechnology company with an end-to-end approach to RNA Gene Therapy, potentially enabling the development of cures in neurodegenerative, metabolic and rare genetic diseases through our breakthrough payload, delivery, and manufacturing platform technologies. Our vision is to facilitate adoption of thesetechnologies throughout the industry to develop effective treatments for as many patients as possible.
Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
- Fabric — A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. Your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links and files automatically gathered into one intelligent home. The world's first AI-native universal storage.
Tom Williams
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- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures
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- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
- Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai
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- Health Care, Medical, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Versameb — Versameb AG is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland managed by an experienced scientific and business pharmaceutical industry team. The company’s focus is the development of novel RNA-based therapeutics. Versameb’s proprietary VERSagile technology platform enables efficient development of functional mRNAmolecules for customized protein expression and modification in multiple disease areas with high unmet medical need.
- Enterprise Bot — Cost-effective Conversational AI solutions transforming customer interaction for global enterprises. Discover cutting-edge chat, email, and voice tech.
- Scientific Visual — Scientific Visual supplies quality control workstations to visualize defects in non-polished sapphire such as watch covers, ingots and wafers.
Jack Abraham is the Founder and Managing Partner of Atomic. He previously worked at TalkIQ as a Co-founder and Investor. Jack Abraham attended The Wharton School.
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- Health Care, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
- Dispatch — OneAdvisory helps independent financial advisors to build ideal firms through strategic investments and advanced technology. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
- Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience
David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
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- Airtable — Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Ginkgo Bioworks — Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.
Over the course of the last decade, first as a graduate student at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology with PhD advisor Professor Stuart Schreiber and then as an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University, Dr. Ethan Perlstein developed an approach to studying old drugs anddiscovering new drugs in model organisms called evolutionary pharmacology. Ethan is an author on 19 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, including the discovery of a novel mechanism of action for the antidepressant Zoloft based on studies in yeast cells.
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- Biotechnology, Cannabis, Biopharma
- Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Epinoma — Epinoma is a diagnostics company that focuses on the multi-omics approach to cancer monitoring. It engineers proteins that control the operating system of biology. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- BluumBio — BluumBio develops next-generation remediation technologies that clean up pollution and restore degraded ecosystems
- Promakhos Therapeutics — A Boston-based biotech startup developing therapeutics.
Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
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- AnyCreek — AnyCreek is a platform that facilitates the booking of outdoor adventures such as fishing or hunting trips. It aims to connect adventure-seekers with guides and outfitters, providing a space for them to discover and book the best outdoor experiences. The platform is designed to be guide-friendly, empowering guides and outfitters to reach a wideraudience.
- Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
- Refr Sports — Welcome to Refr Sports, the world's fastest growing assigning solution. Our comprehensive suite of services saves you time and money while allowing you to be the assignor people love to work with.
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Cube AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
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