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Pluton Biosciences looks to nature for cutting-edge biotech solutions, raising $6.6M seed

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“There are a trillion species of microbes, and we only use a couple of them,” said Pluton founder and CTO Barry Goldman, who spent nearly two decades at Monsanto looking into similar ideas. “We’re trying to use that huge reservoir of biodiversity out there to solve big problems. 3D illustration.

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Allozymes looks to upend chemical manufacturing with rapid enzyme engineering and $5M seed

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Allozymes was founded by Peyman Salehian (CEO) and Akbar Vahidi (CTO), two Iranian chemical engineers who met while pursuing their PhDs at the National University of Singapore. The reactions occur inside this little drop, which is incubated, tracked, and eventually collected and tested in a fraction of the time a larger sample would take.

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