The journey of bringing bio-based technologies from the lab to the market is anything but easy, and having a trusted guide can make all the difference. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦! These industry experts will support Breakout, our portfolio, and our broader ecosystem — from diligencing investment opportunities to commercializing new tech. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠: ✨ Sridhar Iyengar, PhD: Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Elemental Machines ✨ Coco Krumme, PhD: Founder of Leeward Co ✨ Rebecca Nugent, PhD: VP of HTP Operations at Tessera Therapeutics ✨ Walter Solomon: Board Director and Advisor ✨ Ilan Zipkin, PhD: Founder and CEO of Supercede Therapeutics, Inc. Breakout Ventures is built on the theory that creative bioscience founders need more than just capital to take on the world's biggest challenges in human health and sustainability. Thank you to our venture partners, advisors, and community members for helping us build a bio-based future! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞: https://lnkd.in/gp4SADTe
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Building a future powered by science.
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Breakout Ventures is the home for creative bioscience entrepreneurs. We invest in early stage companies harnessing the power of cells to build solutions in human health and sustainability. Our team has spent the last decade supporting science-driven companies moving with urgency. We partner with bold founders throughout the entire life cycle, from seed to scale. Our portfolio has grown leather without the cow, reprogrammed B cells to produce personalized protein therapeutics, and transformed industrial carbon dioxide emissions into useful products. We believe cells are the engine of the next decade as the tools, technologies and, most importantly, talent from across industries are brought to bear on biology and chemistry in surprising ways. Breakout Ventures, building the future powered by science.
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- Technology, Science, Deep Technology, Therapeutics, Sustainability, Human Health, Diagnostics, Biomanufacturing, Materials, Decarbonization, Cell Engineering, Neuro, Biomaterials, Waste Conversion, biochemicals, Genomics, Proteomics, Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy, Petroleum product replacement, and
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We build with visionary entrepreneurs who don't accept the status quo. The 10 years and $1B+ it takes to bring medicines from discovery to approval is unacceptable... and ready to be overhauled by computation. At our 2024 Magnify Debate, we tackled the question: 𝐈𝐟 𝐌𝐋+𝐀𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭? Arguing for expanding the top of the funnel "Going Wide" David Younger of A-Alpha Bio and Karen Akinsanya of Schrödinger championed expanding the search space to design molecules even nature hasn't seen. Fighting for improving success at the bottom of the funnel "Going Narrow" Ron Alfa, MD, PhD of NOETIK and Etai Jacob of AstraZeneca explained how going deeper into underlying biology will improve translation to humans and deliver on the promises of precision medicine. So who won? Check the highlight video and let us know your vote. PS - Interested in attending next year's event? Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know: https://lnkd.in/d3eRkTnG
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Congrats to Breakout Ventures Fellow Daniel Carbonero on his publication in Nature Scientific Reports! If you're into computation and neuroscience, this is your reading for the day!
I’m beyond proud to share that the foundation of my doctoral research - using machine learning to understand how neurons form and shift networks - has been published in Scientific Reports. This was certainly a labor of love, and I’m grateful to my co-author Jad Noueihed, PhD for all the day-to-day mentorship, and my co-advisors Mark Kramer and John White for making this all possible. Turning years of hard work into a cohesive story wasn’t easy. Looking beyond graduation this spring, I'm excited to dive deeper into the biotech sector to help get these types of technologies to where they are needed most. Always happy to chat with investors, founders, and industry builders! You can read the open-access publication here: https://lnkd.in/e6ryirBF TLDR: Neuronal network dynamics are integral to brain functions, enabling sensory encoding, motor control, memory, decision-making, and learning. While recording advances have enabled the collection of huge data sets, traditional downstream analysis cuts out almost all variant temporal activity. We used Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) to enhance the interpretability of large-scale data while still capturing the majority of its variant dynamics. Comfortably outperforming standard machine learning methods on both artificial and in vivo data, NMF can put neuro’s huge datasets to better use, paving the way for developing treatments for neurological disorders and designing brain-machine interfaces.
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Congratulations to Daniel Carbonero, our Breakout Fellow at Boston University, on publishing his ML-driven neuroscience findings in Nature Scientific Reports!
I’m beyond proud to share that the foundation of my doctoral research - using machine learning to understand how neurons form and shift networks - has been published in Scientific Reports. This was certainly a labor of love, and I’m grateful to my co-author Jad Noueihed, PhD for all the day-to-day mentorship, and my co-advisors Mark Kramer and John White for making this all possible. Turning years of hard work into a cohesive story wasn’t easy. Looking beyond graduation this spring, I'm excited to dive deeper into the biotech sector to help get these types of technologies to where they are needed most. Always happy to chat with investors, founders, and industry builders! You can read the open-access publication here: https://lnkd.in/e6ryirBF TLDR: Neuronal network dynamics are integral to brain functions, enabling sensory encoding, motor control, memory, decision-making, and learning. While recording advances have enabled the collection of huge data sets, traditional downstream analysis cuts out almost all variant temporal activity. We used Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) to enhance the interpretability of large-scale data while still capturing the majority of its variant dynamics. Comfortably outperforming standard machine learning methods on both artificial and in vivo data, NMF can put neuro’s huge datasets to better use, paving the way for developing treatments for neurological disorders and designing brain-machine interfaces.
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From soybeans to... leather? With new bio-based materials technology, companies like Modern Meadow are helping the fashion industry go green. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 🌱 From bio-based faux leather to plant-based cashmere, soy materials are replacing petroleum-based inputs and animal fibers. 🧥 Modern Meadow is pioneering soy-derived materials through their Bio-Alloy green chemistry technology, including their Bio-Vera faux leather that is being used by top brands like TORY BURCH and Everlane. 📈 Per Modern Meadow's general manager of biomaterials, Jeffrey Alan Smith, “A challenge faced by all new materials is the ability to reach an affordable scale quickly. We have been able to reach that scale quickly in part due to the existing scale of soy production today.” 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 WWD 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: https://lnkd.in/ewUsHRpQ
One Plant, Many Possibilities: Soy’s Growing Potential for Fashion Production
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Had a great time discussing the intersection of gene therapy and neuroscience with Matias Serebrinsky and Greg Kubin - check it out!
"Neuro is a very data-rich, insight-poor field... and those fields tend to really benefit from things like AI." ~Breakout Ventures' Partner Dana Watt, PhD on PsyMed Ventures' Business Trip podcast. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 🧠 From Huntington’s to depression, gene and RNA-based therapies are unlocking new possibilities for treating brain and mental health disorders at their root cause. 💻 Thanks to the power of advanced computation and AI, scientists can gain new insights into the complexity and diversity of psychiatric conditions down to the individual patient level. ⚡ The bold question we're excited to uncover: Will neuro-focused therapies one day move from treatment to enhancement? 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 Business Trip 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐲 PsyMed Ventures 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 Matias Serebrinsky 𝐚𝐧𝐝 Greg Kubin: https://lnkd.in/gWdJT3qR
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"Neuro is a very data-rich, insight-poor field... and those fields tend to really benefit from things like AI." ~Breakout Ventures' Partner Dana Watt, PhD on PsyMed Ventures' Business Trip podcast. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 🧠 From Huntington’s to depression, gene and RNA-based therapies are unlocking new possibilities for treating brain and mental health disorders at their root cause. 💻 Thanks to the power of advanced computation and AI, scientists can gain new insights into the complexity and diversity of psychiatric conditions down to the individual patient level. ⚡ The bold question we're excited to uncover: Will neuro-focused therapies one day move from treatment to enhancement? 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 Business Trip 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐲 PsyMed Ventures 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 Matias Serebrinsky 𝐚𝐧𝐝 Greg Kubin: https://lnkd.in/gWdJT3qR
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Are you a healthtech entrepreneur from an underrepresented background? Want personalized mentorship from a network of investors, industry leaders, and advisors? Apply to RISE by 12/18! 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 🏥 The UCSF Rosenman Institute, founded by Christine Winoto, has been supporting transformative health technology companies from concept to commercialization since 2014. 🤝 The RISE program provides 3 months of personalized mentorship on communications, legal strategy, market access, and more. You'll get exclusive access to the Rosenman community of innovators, partners, and experts who are committed to helping 𝒚𝒐𝒖 shape the future of healthcare. 👩🔬 RISE is open to founders from historically underrepresented backgrounds who are building patient-focused companies through health and medical technology. This includes women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and founders from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲: https://lnkd.in/d6KnTBC9
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Antibody therapeutics are highly specific and powerful at stopping disease... if they are precisely engineered. A-Alpha Bio's newly-published AlphaBind optimization model does it 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳, and 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 💊 Leveraging the body's own immune system, antibody therapies offer a versatile, modular, and precise solution to treating hard-to-target diseases. But the cost and time required to produce the 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 ones—those with low immunogenicity and long-lasting effects—get in the way of innovation. 🧬 A-Alpha Bio's AlphaBind antibody optimization computational model antibody-antigen binding data to engineer effective therapeutics in a fraction of the time it would take in a traditional biopharma lab. 💻 Built on top of NVIDIA's BioNemo platform, AlphaBind is now publicly available on Github, along with the AlphaSeq datasets that can help fine-tune it for your own research needs: https://lnkd.in/dz_8Uce8 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 bioRxiv & medRxiv 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: https://lnkd.in/gT-96Va8
AlphaBind, a Domain-Specific Model to Predict and Optimize Antibody-Antigen Binding Affinity
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We're thrilled to introduce our newest portfolio company, Copernic Catalysts, which today announced the close of their $8M Seed Prime financing to develop novel catalysts for sustainable chemicals and e-fuels! 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 🌎 Ammonia production for nitrogen fertilizers and fuels is both expensive and carbon-intensive, accounting for 1% of the world’s carbon emissions – more than that of any other industrial chemical. 🧪 Combining chemistry and advanced computation, Copernic Catalysts uses a first-principles approach to identify novel catalysts that help produce sustainable chemicals and efuels. Through an exclusive partnership with Schrödinger, Copernic leverages physics-based materials modeling to quickly and accurately predict which compounds will work best. 💵 The $8M Series Seed Prime financing, led by Breakout Ventures, will be used to scale the ammonia catalyst's production and develop a second catalyst to make eSAF. Round participants include existing investors Future Ventures & Engine Ventures, as well as new investors Innospark Ventures, New Climate Ventures, and Impact Science Ventures. Congratulations to co-founders Jacob Grose and Aruna Ramkrishnan on hitting this big milestone (and many more to come)! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 Breakout Ventures 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 Nima Ronaghi, PhD: https://lnkd.in/d6vQafEz
Revolutionizing Catalysis via Computational and Experimental Chemistry
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