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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

TechCrunch

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. The biotech didn’t specify what roles and departments got trimmed.

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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

TechCrunch

We certainly see its ability to give us a unique advantage in finding new biology.”. But with this most recent funding round, the company has landed six more C-suite hires. . Daniel Anderson, former VP of biology at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, will join as chief scientific officer. Alfred Freddie Bowie, Jr.,

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It’s No Secret: Enterprises Reveal Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage

Infinidat

Proactive alerting and notifications are top of their field.” – VP of Engineering in the IT Services industry Performance “The InfiniBox SSA performance is astonishing with no learning curve over the non-SSA InfiniBox.” – IT Principal Senior Advisor in the Healthcare & Biotech industry "Delivers as marketed. Never had an issue.

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