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12Companies in the 2026 cohort
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Cohort 2026

Focai Bio

Optimizing precision medicine and therapeutic design for effective drug distribution and improved response using generative AI of complex tissue.

Cohort 2026

NuvoBio

Using biology-informed AI to design safer, more effective peptide therapeutics and unlock new druggable targets.

Cohort 2026

Whelix

Automating cell culture with intelligent robotics to boost scalability, consistency, and speed in life science research.

Cohort 2025

PCare+

Unlocking precision preventive care through AI-enabled pipelines that translate evolving guidelines into action

Cohort 2024

Inaedis

Manufacturing powdered, thermally stable biologics and vaccines using innovative room-temperature dehydration technology.

Cohort 2024

ModernVivo

Developing software to help research scientists design optimized in vivo models to reduce costs, accelerate timelines, and identify effective therapeutics.

Cohort 2024

ReSync Bio

Serving as a single source of truth for preclinical operations: coordinating labs, data, and software programs on one platform.

Cohort 2024

Voyant Bio

Designing precision immunotherapies targeting immune-immune cell interactions to radically improve cancer patient treatment outcomes.

Cohort 2023

DANNCE.AI

Transforming patient care and treatment via advanced 3D pose tracking AI to categorize patient mobility and behaviors.

Cohort 2023

Vcreate

Harnessing machine learning and high-throughput assays to discover potent T-cell receptors for currently untreatable cancers.

Cohort 2022

Gesund.ai

Building the AI validation infrastructure and highway to robust, safe, and equitable healthcare AI algorithms for all.

Cohort 2022

Magna Labs

Optimizing high-quality bioinformatic software throughout development, accelerating the innovation and delivery of precision science & medicine.

Cohort 2022

Stem Pharm

Providing physiologically relevant in vitro human models of complex neurologic diseases to pharma companies for use in drug discovery and preclinical development.

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SyntheX

Enabling novel pharmacology using an intracellular functional selection platform for molecular glues, degraders, and PPI disruptors.

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