The 9 top biotech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Here is the full list of the biotech and pharma Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
Biotech & Health
Can AI fix the operating room? This startup thinks so
There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room […]
Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.
Fertility startup Inito wants to use AI-designed antibodies to expand at-home health tests
Inito has raised $29 million in new funding to invest in and develop AI-engineered antibodies that will help it offer new types of tests and improve the accuracy of existing ones.
This startup built a Fitbit for your brain to combat chronic stress
Forenza collaborated with data scientists and biomedical engineers to develop Awear, a small device worn behind the ear for continuous brainwave monitoring. The device transmits results to an app, which provides information about the wearer’s mood and offers AI-powered coaching advice for managing stress and improving emotional resilience.
After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something stranger
“You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain,” Hodak says, “possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people.”
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
The spectacle of Bryan Johnson and his livestreamed shrooms trip
Bryan Johnson livestreamed his shrooms trip — which included both Grimes and Marc Benioff — as part of his controversial longevity research.
Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation
From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to connect this trove of data in a meaningful way and actually use it to improve their health. Function Health wants to consolidate health data and make it usable for its customers.
Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier
Onepot AI is a a company that is home to the small-molecule synthesis lab POT-1.