Re:Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
by vqc on Monday March 23, 2015 @05:58PM
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YC is telling us that there may be a lot of value in batching and accelerating these types of products/companies. Maybe we should start a biotech focused accelerator (as opposed to software) that turns post-doc chemists/biologists (as opposed to software engineers) into rockstar founders.
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Re:Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
by george88b on Monday March 23, 2015 @06:11PM
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Something like this is already being done. Indiebio just launched in SF and they are doing great work at bringing in pot-doc chemists and biochemists and de-risking their academic work and turning them companies.
Disclaimer, my company Pembient is in the first class.
Re:Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
by vqc on Monday March 23, 2015 @06:16PM
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Ah, that's perfect; the idea is validated. Time to start a competitor in other bio hubs. =)
Re:Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
by srunni on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @01:08AM
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There are already many well-established biotech accelerators/incubators in Boston (Lab Central, PureTech Ventures, Third Rock Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Atlas Venture, etc.), Seattle (Accelerator Corporation; also in NYC), NYC (Harlem Biospace), and San Diego/Montreal/Vancouver (Inception Sciences).