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AI January 7, 2024 0

Isomorphic inks deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis for drug discovery

Isomorphic Labs, the London-based, drug discovery-focused spin-out of Google AI R&D division DeepMind, today announced that it’s entered into strategic partnerships with two pharmaceutical giants, Eli Lilly and Novartis, to apply AI to discov…

Biotech & Health November 30, 2023 0

Drug discovery startup Pepper Bio hopes to challenge Eroom’s law with new funding

by Anna Heim

The biotech startup’s $6.5 million seed round is led by VC firm NFX but it is perhaps equally noteworthy to see that Merck is also participating in the round.
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AI October 31, 2023 0

DeepMind’s latest AlphaFold model is more useful for drug discovery

by Kyle Wiggers

Nearly five years ago, DeepMind, one of Google’s more prolific AI-centered research labs, debuted AlphaFold, an AI system that can accurately predict the structures of many proteins inside the human body. Since then, DeepMind has improved on the …

AI July 13, 2023 0

Causaly, an AI platform for drug discovery and biomedical research, raises $60M

by Ingrid Lunden

Artificial intelligence has been a big theme in the world of health and medical research, and specifically in the area of drug discovery. Today, another hopeful in the space is announcing a funding round to expand its own contribution to the field. Causaly, a London startup that has built an AI platform to help researchers […]

Causaly, an AI platform for drug discovery and biomedical research, raises $60M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

atomic.ai January 25, 2023 0

With new funding, Atomic AI envisions RNA as the next frontier in drug discovery

by Devin Coldewey

The biotech industry is experiencing a rush of AI-powered tools for many aspects of the complex drug discovery process. But one that has flown under the radar, increasingly thought to be key to certain diseases but woefully understudied, is RNA. With $35 million in new funding, Atomic AI aims to do for RNA what AlphaFold […]

With new funding, Atomic AI envisions RNA as the next frontier in drug discovery by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Artificial Intelligence May 9, 2022 0

Brightseed’s first AI-detected ‘phytonutrient’ comes to market alongside a $68M A round

by Devin Coldewey

Who knows what secrets await in the hearts of plants? Brightseed has found a couple of them, anyway, using an AI-based analysis method, and will be bringing its first products to market soon with the help of a $68 million B round. Brightseed’s thesis is simply that there are almost certainly some very helpful and […]

biotechnology April 6, 2022 0

6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies

by Ram Iyer

We believe in a future where psychedelic therapy will be as common as going to the dentist, but the path won’t be easy.

Activision March 30, 2022 0

8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

by Amanda Silberling

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too. Here are all of the […]