Roundtable #1 - TechBio Era w/ Zavain Dar
GUESTS: Zavain Dar - Partner @ Lux Capital & Nan Li - Managing Director @ Obvious Ventures
Zavain Dar is a Partner @lux_capital & invests at the intersection and union of cutting-edge biotech and software. Zavain has led Lux’s investments in Primer, a machine intelligence startup; Clarifai, which democratizes cutting edge deep neural networks; Auransa, which is developing novel medicines based on computational insight applied to genomic data; Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) which uses automation and deep learning to develop drugs for rare diseases; Tempo Automation, which applies software and automation to electronics manufacturing; Rigetti Computing, which is fabricating some of the fastest quantum chips in the world; Braid, which is bringing AI to medical diagnostics; Visor, which aims to simplify tax preparation; Computable Labs, which is building a decentralized data marketplace; Cryptonumerics, a data control company acquired by Snowflake Computing; The Stacks Foundation, which is making Bitcoin programmable; Runway, which is putting machine learning tools into the hands of creators; LabGenius, a protein drug discovery company; Anagenex, a drug discovery company leveraging DNA encoded libraries; Hugging Face, an open-source company democratizing Natural Language Processing; Dyno Therapeutics, an AI-powered gene therapy company; Enveda Biosciences, which is translating nature into medicine; Gandeeva, cryo-electron microscopy drug discovery; A-Alpha Bio, a protein-protein interaction synthetic biology platform; Nomic, a proteomics company; and Thrive Earlier Detection, an early cancer detection company that Exact Sciences agreed to acquire for $2.15 billion in 2020.
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Nan Li is a Managing Director @ Obvious Ventures, where he leads Obvious’ investments in computational biology visionaries like Zymergen, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and LabGenius; AI-driven platforms opening new opportunities across sectors such as Planet, Inato, and DarwinAI; and intelligent robotics companies like Dexterity.
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