George Church

“$12B valuation, $635M raised including a $400M round that doubled from its $200M target. 260+ employees, 55,000 sq ft Texas HQ, six species in de-extinction portfolio, three sets of live engineered animals produced.”

“Astromech builds predictive models of biological change trained on 3.8 billion years of evolutionary history. Applications span cancer, drug resistance, biosecurity, agriculture, and conservation.”

“George Church thinks he can make a woolly mammoth. And we're pretty sure that that's worth something — that was like the original deck.”