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For far too long, we the people who want to give and get better care have had no say in what new ideas get into practice. When you support new ideas here they are over 20 times more likely to get out to market - sometimes incredibly fast. So explore, like, try, pilot, partner, mentor, or invest in these companies and ideas and let's fix healthcare, one awesome idea at a time!
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Alex Fair
Founder, Managing Partner · Medstartr, MedStartr Capital
While working on his Ph.D. in Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Alex took a break to found his first health tech startup. That first company was bought by a company that had just gone public and he has never looked back, starting new companies and running them eve...
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- Pitch Coaching
- Fundraising Strategy Advisory

Christopher Missling
President · Skythia Therapeutics
Christopher U Missling, PhD, has spent more than twenty years working with the aim to bring new treatments to people living with disorders of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and rare conditions such as Rett syndrome and autism, i...

Jonathan Fair
Managing Director at MedStartr Ventures, CEO at Topi Care · MedStartr Ventures, Topi Care
Real estate and economic development leader for 30 years. Joined MedStartr in 2018 and manages the fund and all aspects of fund reporting and operations. Started Topi, Inc in 2020 as a healthcare innovation business development company in 20220.

Mohammed Quadri
Founder and General Partner (Grow360Q), VP Strategy and Innovation (Hackensack Meridian Health) · Grow360Q
I've spent 20 years inside health systems - and I've learned one thing: The best healthcare technology often never reaches patients. Not because it doesn't work, but because it doesn't get adopted. The 65% failure rate in healthcare ventures isn't a technology problem. It's an...
Fyggy's top 10 in Drug Discovery/Development
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Praxis Precision MedicinesMedStartr Engagement Score58MedStartr Engagement Score58 - 2
BenchlingMedStartr Engagement Score57MedStartr Engagement Score57 - 2Gilead SciencesMedStartr Engagement Score57MedStartr Engagement Score57
- 2ProfluentMedStartr Engagement Score57MedStartr Engagement Score57
- 5BioseroMedStartr Engagement Score55MedStartr Engagement Score55
- 6Qilu PharmaceuticalMedStartr Engagement Score54MedStartr Engagement Score54
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SchrödingerMedStartr Engagement Score54MedStartr Engagement Score54 - 8Finch TherapeuticsMedStartr Engagement Score53MedStartr Engagement Score53
- 9Excision BioTherapeuticsMedStartr Engagement Score52MedStartr Engagement Score52
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Precision BiosciencesMedStartr Engagement Score52MedStartr Engagement Score52
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Praxis Precision Medicines
Cambridge, MA, US
A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that translates genetic insights into the development of precision medicines for central nervous system (CNS) disorders.
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Benchling
Benchling is a life sciences R&D cloud platform.
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Foster City, California, USA
Gilead Sciences is a pharmaceutical company.
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Berkeley, California, USA
Profluent is an AI-first protein design company that leverages its platform for CRISPR gene editing systems to accelerate the development of genetic medicines.
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San Diego, CA, USA
Biosero develops device-agnostic automation software, Green Button Go™ Automation Scheduling Software, for life science, pharmaceutical, and industrial manufacturing. The softwa...
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Jinan, China
Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a leading, vertically integrated pharmaceutical company based in China, specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of finishe...
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Schrödinger
Schrödinger is an international scientific software and biotechnology company, founded in 1990, developing computational tools for drug discovery and materials science. Its phys...
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Somerville, MA, US
Finch Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that pioneered microbiome therapeutics and has since transitioned from drug development to an intellectual property (IP) holding an...
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Watertown, MA, US
Excision BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing CRISPR-based gene-editing therapies to cure chronic viral infectious diseases by permanently elimin...
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Precision Biosciences
Durham, NC, US
Precision Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on developing gene editing therapies for cancer immunotherapy.
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Reify Health
Reify Health is a company using technology to improve clinical trial efficiency.
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Newton, Massachusetts, US
Allena Pharmaceuticals develops non-systemic protein therapeutics for metabolic and orphan diseases.
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New York, NY, USA
Biotech startup described as focused on depleting disease and empowering health.
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Pasadena, CA, US
A clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel drug formulations for oncology indications using its proprietary MITO technology platform to target the mitochondria of ...
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Illumina is involved in genomics and drug discovery, collaborating with NVIDIA for sequencing and multiomics analysis.
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Oxford, CA, UK
Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) is a clinical-stage oncology company based in Oxford, UK, and San Jose, USA. It is dedicated to discovering and developing first-in-class antibody-b...
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Pencil Biosciences
Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK
Pencil Biosciences is a biotechnology company.
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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Eli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare company with a rich history of pharmaceutical innovation, focused on discovering, developing, manufacturing, and selling innovative ...
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San Francisco, CA, US
Algen is a platform company focused on drug target discovery, utilizing CRISPR technology and machine learning to decode causal biology and identify disease-driving mechanisms. ...
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Algorithmiq
Helsinki, Finland
Algorithmiq is a quantum computing company that develops advanced algorithms to solve complex problems in drug discovery and molecular structure prediction, aiming to make the p...
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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Eli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader specializing in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative pharmaceutical products. Headquartered...
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Santa Clara, California, US
A biotech startup developing mRNA immunotherapies to eliminate cancer. Their Tethosomes platform uses LNP technology to deliver DNA/mRNA, turning cancer cells into localized imm...
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London, United Kingdom
GSK plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company specializing in the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of prescription medic...
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San Francisco, California, US
Kopra Bio is a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies for cancer, specifically for solid tumors, by using genetically engineered viruses that stimulate the immune system.
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