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Investing in early-stage companies that are building the future with science. Learn more at breakout.vc
It's not every day that your portfolio company's CEO 𝒂𝒏𝒅 your firm's Managing Partner land a spot on @cnbc.com 🎉 Congrats to Harshal and the ZymoChem team, and thanks for inviting our very own Lindy to join you on screen!
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Raising funding for your biotech startup? Join WIB-San Francisco Bay Area's "Navigating Funding & Investment" panel (and say hi to our Partner, Dana Watt!) to learn what it takes to attract capital in today’s landscape.

Learn more and register here: community.womeninbio.org/event/sanfra...
April 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Spinouts from the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington—like A-Alpha Bio—have helped establish Seattle as a major life science hub.

Learn how at the Life Science Innovation Northwest conference April 23-24: lifesciencewa.org/events/life-...
April 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Universities sit at the crossroads of groundbreaking innovation, charged with bridging the gap between research and commercialization. It's a big lift—but they don't have to do it alone!

Attending next week's AUTM Annual Meeting? Say hi to our Director of Platform, @susannalharris.bsky.social!
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Shoutout to our very own Nima Ronaghi, PhD for being highlighted in Deep Checks' Featured Fund Partner section!

As a Principal at Breakout Ventures, Nima finds and supports companies pushing the boundaries of building with science.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐬: www.deepchecks.vc#:~:text=FEAT...
January 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
LPs want more than just healthy returns – they want to know 𝒉𝒐𝒘 firms get those returns. From understanding strategy to keeping an eye on valuation decisions, transparency is key.

Breakout's Julia Moore takes the stage next week at the With Intelligence Summit to share insider tips.
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Thank you to our cohosts Dolby Family Ventures and AIX Ventures for helping us fill the historic Redwood Room with founders, investors, and partners leading the way in frontier platforms.

Here's a thread of our favorite photos from the evening. DM us if you attended and want access to the gallery.
January 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Heading to the Cleantech Forum meeting next week? Be sure to catch ZymoChem's CEO and Co-Founder, Harshal Chokhawala, at the "Ones to Watch" innovation showcase!

Register today for the meeting in San Diego on January 27th-29th: www.cleantech.com/event/cleant...
January 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
With the launch of their OCTO-VirtualCell (OCTO-vc) and Celleporter visualization tool, NOETIK is taking the world a (𝒃𝒊𝒈) step forward in how we understand and interact with biological systems.
December 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
The best "problem" a VC media manager can have is when the portfolio companies have too much good news.

Cheers to Cytovale for a very big week: from speaking at Forbes' Healthcare Summit, to expanding into yet another hospital, to being named in Inc. Magazine's Best in Business.

Links below!
December 5, 2024 at 4:20 PM
When biotech meets nanotech, the possibilities are endless... and 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.
Need proof? Check out the new All Rounder Bio-X Gloves that blend plant-based leather from Modern Meadow's (a Breakout portfolio company) with Graphene-X's graphene-integrated fabric.
www.graphene-x.com/products/all...
December 3, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Visionary entrepreneurs don't accept the status quo. The 10 years and $1B+ it takes to bring medicines from discovery to approval is unacceptable... and ready for a tech overhaul.

Thanks to everyone who joined our Magnify Debate to decide: how will computation reshape the drug development funnel?
November 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Congrats to Danny Carbonero, our Breakout Fellow at BU, on publishing his ML-driven neuroscience dissertation work in Nature Scientific Reports. With senior author @johnawhitephd.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM