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2025

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Aperture Bio

Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
Bullseye Biosciences

By leveraging competition and evolution, Bullseye aims to transform therapeutics discovery and expedite the development of life-saving medicines.
Change The Tune

Closing the opportunity gap for youth in underserved communities by creating holistic, radical, and transformational extended learning experiences in partnership with communal organizations.
Concerto Biosciences

Discovering microbial ensembles for health via a patented screening platform.
Day Zero Diagnostics

Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
GC Therapeutics

Using synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with best-in-class efficiency, speed, and scalability.
InGel Therapeutics

Regenerative cell-therapy biotech aiming to treat people affected by blindness.
JustFix

Building free tools for tenants to exercise their rights to a livable home.
Kinnos

Adding color to disinfectants, visualizing surface coverage for more effective and efficient cleaning in healthcare settings.
MabLab

Building five-in-one test strips to detect the five deadliest lacing agents in recreational drugs.
Manifold Bio

Designing tissue-specific medicines in living systems from the start by combining high-throughput in-vivo studies with AI-guided protein design.
MDaaS Global

Building and operating modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers to provide healthcare for Africa's next billion.
Oze

Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
ReThink

An app that detects online hate and gives users a second chance to reconsider the decision to post or send offensive messages.
SoWork

Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
Stratagen Bio

Transforming MRI scans into a tool for objective clinical decision-making and quantitative biomarker assessment.
TANGapp

An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc.

Transforming the discovery of novel drugs addressing targets in the GPCR family.
Transcera

Transforming chronic disease treatment through improved biologic drug delivery.

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