I learned about Twist in October 2021, when I shared a link from Alex Danco. He was excited about an API for biotech, enabling a new class of bio founders. In April 2022 I was impressed by Twist’s CEO speaking on a podcast about […]
The title rang true, I had never heard of this firm. Its first three funds produces more than 10x returns each. “Hummingbird Ventures has built an astonishing track record – all while staying out of the limelight. Its secret to […]
A report by SVB based on their proprietary data. “Our inaugural Innovation in Women’s Health report unveils an optimistic outlook for this undervalued and rapidly growing sector, despite broader VC challenges and obstacles within the space.” One interesting chart shows […]
A report from Rock Health, making use of their ‘maturity curve’ model that tech themes follow from nascent to mature. At maturity it should be clear whether a theme is a fad, a niche, or new table stakes. They, “selected […]
This comes with a transcript, so it’s easy to skim and covers a lot of ground. “I had a theory. Technology companies are going to scale faster because of this thing called the Internet. The private markets and private capital […]
“In June 2023, five years after the CNBC segment [on Jim Cramer’s show] almost to the day, Zume was liquidated. The company, which raised approximately $445 million in its lifetime, is one of Silicon Valley’s most embarrassing failures. Cause of […]
“Two landmark publications came out today: one on the use of Google’s Deep Mind to simulate millions of new possible materials, the other describes and autonomous self driving robotic laboratory to synthesize the materials prediction by DeepMinds simulations.” ~ learn more
The original prize was designed to promote space tourism with a $10 million bounty. Now here comes another: “XPRIZE Healthspan is a 7-year, $101 million global competition to revolutionize the way we approach human aging.” ~ learn more
“In short, the paper validates the idea that it’s now possible to apply machine learning to quantify, digitize, and engineer scent. A core problem preventing us from digitizing scent is something that the other senses already have – a map. […]
This blows my mind. I double-checked the math and think it’s accurate. The average power needed to generate one image from text is equivalent to an entire cell phone battery. A new paper published by researchers from Hugging Face and […]