biotech

Retro Biosciences, backed by Sam Altman, is raising $1 billion to extend human lifespan

Startups /

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doubling down on Retro Biosciences, a biotech startup based in San Francisco that wants humans to live 10 years longer than what it calls a healthy human lifespan. Altman previously provided Retro Biosciences’ entire seed round of $180 million. Now, the startup is raising a $1 billion Series A that […]

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Alta Resource breaks down e-waste for rare earth metals that electronics need

Climate /

Rare earth metals are largely unknown to the general public, but are used in a huge variety of products. The elements, including neodymium, and praesodymium, and cerium, themselves aren’t rare. But they’re concentrated in certain parts of the globe and are very challenging to refine into anything useful. Their unique electric and magnetic properties make

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Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants

Biotech & Health /

When Valeria Kogan started her Ph.D. program in bioinformatics, the scientific field that uses computation and software to analyze biological data, in 2017, she imagined her career would always be within the fields of mathematics, medicine, or biology. But after the first AI boom in the late 2010s, she got an intriguing opportunity in a

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‘If you build it, they won’t come’: Bison Ventures founders on scaling frontier tech

Venture /

“If you build it, they won’t come,” Bison Ventures co-founder Tom Biegala said Wednesday on the Equity podcast. The phrase is an internal mantra at Bison, the early-stage venture firm betting on ‘frontier tech’ companies building in the material science, robotics, biotech, climate, and sustainability verticals; one that’s meant to dissuade founders from solving the

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IndieBio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises

Biotech & Health /

IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companies find how much

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