Digest 5/29/23

Surveying great inventors and businesses

Axial: https://linktr.ee/axialxyz

Axial partners with great founders and inventors. We invest in early-stage life sciences companies such as Appia Bio, Seranova Bio, Delix Therapeutics, Simcha Therapeutics, among others often when they are no more than an idea. We are fanatical about helping the rare inventor who is compelled to build their own enduring business. If you or someone you know has a great idea or company in life sciences, Axial would be excited to get to know you and possibly invest in your vision and company . We are excited to be in business with you - email us at   info@axialvc.com

Matchpoint Therapeutics :

- Founded in 2021 from the labs of Nathanael Gray, Edward Chouchani, Jianwei Che & Tinghu Zhang

- To combine their work around covalent chemistry, chemoproteomics & computation

- Developing new covalent inhibitors focused on immunology

TREM2 macrophages drive NK cell paucity and dysfunction in lung cancer led by Matthew Park from the Miriam Merad lab https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01475-4

Founder Stories: Özlem Türeci, mRNA: From Cancer Therapy to Infectious Disease Prevention

"On the one side, you have to be naive as a scientist going into entrepreneurship, you have to respect the competence of other people. But on the other side, you have to question everything."

- Uğur Şahin, Co-Founder and CEO of BioNTech