Digest 6/7/23
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
Sirona Medical:
- Founded in 2018 by Cameron Andrews
- To build a unified cloud platform for radiology
- Putting a worklist, viewer, reporter & AI into one workplace, RadOS, connected to multiple systems
- Deployed as an overlay to practices' on-prem databases
CalFluors: A Universal Motif for Fluorogenic Azide Probes across the Visible Spectrum led by Peyton Shieh from the Carolyn Bertozzi lab https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.5b02383
Scientist Stories: Carolyn Bertozzi, Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience
AAVantgarde Bio:
- Founded in 2021 out of Italy by Alberto Auricchio
- Raised €61M co-led by Forbion & Atlas Venture
- Developing AAV gene therapies for inherited retinal disorders
- With 2 candidates: Usher1B retinitis pigmentosa, using dual hybrid & Stargardt disease, intein
"The major thing is to view biology as an information science."
- Leroy Hood, pioneering genomics & systems biology as well as developing key sequencing technology for Human Genome Project
