Digest 7/11/23

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

Danaher:

- Founded in 1984 by the Rales Brothers

- Initially as an industrials conglomerate, buying out companies & applying their DBS system to them

- Now one of the largest molecular diagnostics businesses in the world, growing in biomanufacturing and synthesis

Computational design of non-porous, pH-responsive antibody nanoparticles led by Erin Yang from the David Baker lab https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.17.537263v1

Scientist Stories: Ricardo Henriques, Super Resolution & Machine Learning in Imaging

SpyGlass Ophthalmics:

- Founded in 2019 to develop ophthalmic therapeutic devices

- Raised $90M led by RA Capital

- To conduct multiple US clinical trials for their delivery platform in glaucoma and other chronic ophthalmic diseases

"We all need to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in."

- Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winner for co-discovering CRISPR gene editing