Vibe Bio, a Boston, MA-based biotechnology firm, raised $12M in funding.
The spherical was led by Initialized Capital with participation from Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, sixth Man Ventures, Yvonne Hao, Enke Bashllari, Andy Coravos, Lerer Hippeau, and Andy Palmer.
The corporate intends to make use of the funds to scale the event of therapies sustainably and gives affected person communities unprecedented possession over the outcomes.
Co-founded by Alok Tayi and Joshua Forman, Vibe Bio is a biotech firm that’s constructing a worldwide group of sufferers, scientists, and companions round a shared mission to treatment uncommon illnesses. The corporate’s strategy, which leverages a decentralized autonomous group (DAO), seeks to scale the event of therapies sustainably and gives affected person communities possession over the outcomes.
Vibe Bio’s DAO will function a web-based coordination hub for its various stakeholders, connecting affected person communities on to buyers, scientists, and different consultants. Members could have the ability to vote on which uncommon illness analysis proposals, in addition to nominate particular illnesses or candidate medicines, to pursue by means of its $VIBE governance token. The proposals will every be vetted by scientists and monetary consultants.
The corporate has already partnered with two affected person advocacy organizations to launch and fund unbiased biotechnology firms to pursue promising therapeutics for uncommon and infrequently deadly illnesses. With Chelsea’s Hope, a affected person advocacy group devoted to curing Lafora illness, which is a deadly type of progressive myoclonus epilepsy that presents in kids and adolescents, Vibe Bio is launching New Hope Therapeutics. The corporate has additionally partnered with NF2 Biosolutions, a affected person advocacy group accelerating gene remedy analysis for Neurofibromatosis Sort 2, a dysfunction characterised by the expansion of noncancerous tumors within the nervous system, to launch Merlin Therapeutics. The mental property from the ventures might be owned by the unbiased biotechnology firms.
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22/06/2022
