Human Health
How Generative AI Is Transforming Healthcare
In a world of complex health challenges, including rising chronic disease rates, doctor and nurse shortages, unequal access to quality care, and aging populations, Kahini...
5 Takeaways from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2024
This year, the Cerebral Valley AI Summit focused on the maturation of generative AI, its adoption by enterprises, and its progress toward more advanced, multi-modal,...
Why We Invested in Ataraxis
Cancer. It’s the great, horrible equalizer that transcends race, class, and geography. About 1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime, according to the...
Increasing Access to Life-Saving Medicine
On a mission to bring clinical trials to everyone
A Positive Approach to Autism
One in 36 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means that every...
Ushering in the AI Era of Scientific Breakthroughs
At Obvious Ventures, we see generative science as the next big wave in AI innovation. Last week, I sat down with three brilliant minds to...
Creating Biological Software to Solve the Biggest Questions in Medicine
Inceptive sees life’s languages fully encapsulated in RNA, a molecule that intermediates how our genetic code (DNA) gets actualized to proteins, which in turn carry...
Generative Science: Our Contrarian View of AI
Large science models will deliver transformative solutions in climate, biotech, and robotics
AI for the GI
How Iterative Health’s founder and CEO is bringing precision care to the masses
10 Healthcare Predictions for 2023
The pandemic ebbed and flowed in 2022. It changed how patients interact with healthcare, strained the finances of health systems, and burned out medical professionals....
10 Food & Wellness Predictions for 2023
In 400 BC, Hippocrates wrote that we should let food be our medicine. Those words are the perfect harbinger for food and wellness trends in...
10 TechBio Predictions for 2023
We foresee the coming year will be one of convergence in TechBio. Cheaper sequencing and new wet lab tools will enable scaled data generation while recent advances in machine learning will unlock unprecedented analytical and predictive capabilities.
Generative AI That Saves Lives
Bringing Generative AI into the healthcare stack can deliver extraordinary possibilities
Rebuilding the Healthcare Delivery Stack, Brick by Brick
A guide to the modernization of healthcare
Fixing the Fickle Finances of Healthcare
How entrepreneurs are helping consumers get better-priced, higher-quality care—with more opportunities ahead
Ken Chahine and the Laws of Nature
How the CEO of Nectar Life Sciences got to now—and plans to end allergies as we know them
Menopause Meets Its Match. Her Name Is Sally Mueller.
Womaness Co-Founder/CEO Sally Mueller brings a dynamic-yet-practical outlook to a long overlooked category.
The Unstoppable Determination of Michelle Longmire, MD
Medable’s Co-founder/CEO on her father’s falconry, never listening to the no’s, and getting more molecules to market
22 Healthcare Predictions For 2022
The past 24 months have been a reckoning for a legacy healthcare system drowning in rising costs and preventable casualties. The gaps in access, resources,...
Identity-Aligned Interventions
A more inclusive healthcare system is emerging. It’s time to accelerate the change
Making Healthcare a 24/7 Affair
Anytime, anywhere care → improved outcomes at lower costs
Finding Wealth in Health
Why the next great consumer company will be a health-focused platform
The New Biology
A counterintuitive approach to biological design is unlocking life-saving therapies and novel materials
A Boon for Business, Creating a Windfall for Causes
Boon Supply founder and CEO Lily Kanter takes e-commerce consciously to the next level
Food Is Medicine, and Neka Pasquale Wants to be Your Doctor.
The story behind Urban Remedy founder Neka Pasquale’s quest to deliver a sensual, colorful, and healing experience with food.
Incredible. Immigrant. Inspiring. Introducing Iman Abuzeid.
The Incredible Health Co-Founder/CEO has been flying under the radar, but those days may be numbered
Leslie Silverglide Flips the Fast Food Script
The visionary co-founder/CEO shares her personal journey and take on the societal shifts that led to MIXT
It Takes More Than Tech to Redefine a Trillion Dollar Category
Recursion Pharmaceuticals’ performance is also driven by an ambitious purpose, a values-driven culture, and the Silicon Slopes. Here’s a look at the people behind the progress
The Easy Thing About Hard Things In Health Care
Ask any person with type 2 diabetes what it’s like living with the disease. You’re likely to hear stories of health problems compounding other health...
Artificial Intelligence Wants To Make Us Healthier, If We Let It
Few words are thrown around Silicon Valley as often as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) these days. Startups promising to create new businesses...