| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.02.2021 | Purpose At Work: Modern Meadow's Path To Industry Disruption, Growth And A Sustainable Future | Purpose At Work: Modern Meadow's Path To Industry Disruption, Growth And A Sustainable FuturePHOTO PROVIDED BY Modern Meadow |
| 29.01.2019 | Houston needs 4 things to emerge as a startup hub, according to this entrepreneur | I often think about why Houston's entrepreneurship ecosystem hasn't taken off as much as it should, given the talent pool and the industrial gravity that's concentrated here.
I joined Station Houston as one of the very early members in Janu... |
| 23.10.2018 | Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund leads $110 million investment in genetic engineering startup Synthego | Genome engineering company Synthego has raised $110 million in a series C round of funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, with participation from 8VC and Menlo Ventures.
Founded in 2012 by brothers and former SpaceX design and engineer... |
| 23.10.2018 | Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund leads $110 million investment in genetic engineering startup Synthego | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Genome engineering company Synthego has raised $1... |
| 14.09.2017 | Breakout Ventures, spun out of Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs, has closed its debut fund with $60M | Lindy Fishburne has spent most of the last six years heading up Breakout Labs, a San Francisco-based program that’s underwritten by renowned investor Peter Thiel and that in 2011 began offering nascent science-focused startups up to $350,00... |
| 13.04.2017 | Breakout Labs backs antibacterials, genomics and biosensor tattoos | From California to Boston to NYC, four more startups have been accepted into the [Peter] Thiel Foundation’s Breakout Labs, a philanthropic incubator for seed-stage companies.
Founded in 2012, Breakout Labs has now invested in some 34 compan... |
| 13.04.2017 | Thiel’s Breakout Labs fuels four new life science companies | Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs continues apace as the nonprofit seed-stage fund has injected more cash into a host of biotechs, labs and startups.
Financial details have not been released, but the funding will go into big data in biotech; micr... |
| 13.10.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: AnelloTech Raises $1.5m, ZymoChem Raises Seed Round, more | ZymoChem, a company that develops microbes and bioprocesses for eco-friendly chemicals from renewable sources like sugar, closed a $350,000 seed round. Early-stage food, science, biomed, and clean energy investor Breakout Labs was the sole ... |
| 11.10.2016 | Breakout Labs backs 4 startups that are “reprogramming nature” | A venture fund that backs very early-stage advanced tech and science startups, Breakout Labs, has invested in 4 new deals, according to founder and Managing Partner Lindy Fishburne.
The fund, which is part of the Thiel Foundation, typically... |
| 11.07.2016 | 3Scan raises $14 million for a robotic microscope that could accelerate drug discovery | Robots and software aren’t just changing manual labor in warehouses or kitchens. They’re also transforming medical research.
A San Francisco startup called 3Scan Inc. raised $14 million in venture funding to automate tissue analysis for sci... |
| 24.03.2016 | Video: Breakout Labs' Julia Moore on funding 'science' | At Vator Splash Health 2016
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Julia Moore (Portfolio Director, Thiel Foundation's Breakout Labs) shares Funding the 'science' behind Health Care - See more at: https://events.vator.tv/splash-health-...
Thanks to o... |
| 08.10.2015 | Tech.Co Deals Roundup: Here’s What Happened While we Were at Celebrate | You may have noticed our Tech.Co funding roundup hasn't been published for the last few days, but that's because we've been busy in Downtown Vegas at our annual Celebrate Conference. In today's roundup, we wanted to bring you the highlights... |
| 06.10.2015 | Breakout Labs Welcomes Startups in Food, Health, Metals, Adhesives | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Car parts that don’t get wet or rust, a nano-glue that won’t damage walls, sensors that detect food freshness, and people who stay healthy as they age. These are the goals of ... |
| 12.05.2015 | Biotech Accelerator IndieBio Bumps Funding To $250K Per Startup To Give Founders More Runway | San Francisco-based biotech accelerator IndieBio has pledged to raise the funding per startup accepted into its program from $50,000 to $250,000 going forward. Each startup will now get $200,000 in cash plus $50,000 worth of co-op lab space... |
| 30.03.2015 | One test to screen them all: Entopsis using AI to build low-cost diagnostic for multiple diseases | The startup’s raised about $800,000 in a seed round, Piloto said. It’s gotten some of its support from Breakout Labs, the Peter Thiel-backed org that helps accelerate promising tech-driven life sciences companies. It’s led by Piloto and cof... |
| 10.02.2015 | Peter Thiel’s ‘futuristic’ Breakout Labs funds three new life sciences startups | Breakout Labs works as a philanthropy that accepts applications on a rolling basis, and funds startups up to $350,000 – aiming at those that fit in the gap between the bench and venture-sexy.
“We have a little bit of a futuristic world view... |
| 03.02.2015 | Big data in pathology: 3Scan’s 3D tissue imaging platform offers reams of data on scale of gene sequencing | The company allows researchers – pathologists in particular – to get an extreme close-up of the 3-D structure of tissues and organ structures. 3Scan’s Knife Edge Scanning Microscope automatically sections and images tissue samples, spitting... |
| 22.10.2014 | SOSVentures Takes On Y Combinator With A Pure Biotech Accelerator | International VC firm SOSVentures is capitalizing on the now buzz worthy biotech investment trend with the creation of IndieBio, the first accelerator to focus on just life sciences.
Y Combinator raised a few eyebrows when it accepted five ... |
| 12.06.2014 | Breakout Labs backs startups building wearable for the gut, stem cell treatment for bones | G-Tech Medical is developing a wireless, wearable patch that works like an “EKG for the gut.” The thin, disposable electrode patch would measure the electrical activity from the stomach, small intestine and colon. Physicians would use the i... |
| 11.06.2014 | G-Tech Medical gets $350,000 to further develop wearable "EKG for the gut" sensor | Palo Alto, California-based G-Tech Medical, which is developing a wearable, disposable sensor patch for patients with gastrointestinal problems, has received funding from investor Peter Thiel's nonprofit fund, Breakout Labs. The grant was f... |
| 28.03.2014 | Breakout Labs and NetScientific Team up to Support HealthCare and Life Sciences Companies | Breakout Labs, Peter Thiel’s philanthropic fund that supports early-stage companies working on technological innovations, and NetScientific, a global investment group focusing on the health care, and life sciences sectors, announced today a... |
| 04.12.2013 | Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs sees first exit validation | Chalk one up for Peter Thiel's two-year-old accelerator for tough science problems
For every accelerator or incubator, or VC for that matter, the way to meausre their success is to look at their exits. So when they come, it's always time to... |
| 15.11.2013 | CytoVale Receives Investment from Breakout Labs | CytoVale, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of a new class of biomarkers based on the mechanical properties of individual cells, or mechanomics, received an investment of undisclosed amount.
Breakout Labs, the program of the Thiel Foundat... |
| 14.11.2013 | Pareto Biotechnologies Raises Funding from Breakout Labs | Pareto Biotechnologies, a San Francisco, CA-based a synthetic biology startup, raised funding from Breakout Labs.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to develop a portfolio of designer molec... |
| 25.10.2013 | These Silicon Valley-Backed Startups Are Looking To Revolutionize Your Food | Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Hampton Creek Foods Founder Josh Tetrick (left) showing off their line of products at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
It looks like Silicon Valley venture capitalists have found the n... |
| 25.10.2013 | These Silicon Valley-Backed Startups Are Looking To Revolutionize Your Food | Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Hampton Creek Foods Founder Josh Tetrick (left) showing off their line of products at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
It looks like Silicon Valley venture capitalists have found the n... |
| 02.10.2013 | Siri 2.0? Skyphrase Wants To Make Data More Accessible With Natural Language, Starting With Analytics & Fantasy Sports | With an increasing number of commercial applications relying on its technology, natural language processing (NLP) has started to come into its own of late. After years of research and experimentation, it has emerged from geeky obscurity and... |
| 20.05.2013 | Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment | Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that description certainly fits Hampton Creek Foods... |
| 17.04.2013 | Peter Thiel’s latest bets boost Siri clone and cancer therapy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away fro... |
| 17.04.2013 | Peter Thiel’s latest bets boost Siri clone and cancer therapy | Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from making risky bets in disruptive technology and research.
Today, the Thiel Foundation announced it would grant $350,000 to two of Breakout Labs’ teams: SkyPhrase and Stealth Biosciences. Bot... |
| 17.04.2013 | Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs Funds “Nanostraws” And A Siri-Like Natural Language Processing Startup | Breakout Labs, a Peter Thiel-backed effort that supports startups doing cutting-edge research that might still be too risky to get traditional venture backing, just put capital into another two companies.
They’re funding a Siri-like natural... |
| 19.12.2012 | Increasing fossil-fuel power by 40% with a green, clean tornado turbocharger | Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and now a venture capitalist and philanthropist, has decided that harnessing tornadoes is the future of green energy production. In a 500-megawatt fossil-fuel power station, as much as 1000 ... |
| 17.12.2012 | Tech’s Favorite Crazy Uncle Peter Thiel Gives Inventor $300,000 to Make Some Tornadoes | (Photo: IMDB)
If Singularity lover and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel can’t have Mars, he will instead control earth. Business Insider reports that the early Facebook investor has bestowed a $300,000 investment upon Canadian inventor Louis Mi... |
| 18.09.2012 | These 9 startups belong in a futurist’s guide to health technology (infographic) | Diagnostics
DxUpClose Inc. is developing a point-of-care, hand-held diagnostic device to screen a fluid sample for specific pathogenic bacteria. It identifies the bacteria if it can or counts the bacteria and then does an antibiotic sensiti... |
| 15.08.2012 | Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs Funds Tissue Engineering, Nano-Engineering Projects And More | Breakout Labs, Peter Thiel’s effort to put $5 million toward cutting-edge research, just awarded another round of funding toward technologies that could one day create meat without harm to animals and improve disease diagnosis.
The fund usu... |
| 05.07.2012 | A Computer Guy’s Dream, Immusoft, Turns Cells Into Drug Factories | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Matthew Scholz has been told many times that his idea for reprogramming the body’s immune cells to create drugs was impossible. Maybe dangerous. Maybe just dumb.
Scholz, a com... |
| 29.04.2012 | Positron Dynamics Receives $350K Grant | Positron Dynamics, a company that focuses on enhancing the production and collection of positrons, a class of elementary particles with several applications, received an up to $350k grant from the Thiel Foundation.
The foundation awarded th... |
| 26.04.2012 | Longevity Biotech Receives $350K Grant | Longevity Biotech, a Philadelphia, PA-based developer of a new class of therapeutics via artificial protein technology, received an up to $350k grant from the Thiel Foundation.
The foundation awarded the funding through Breakout Labs, its n... |
| 24.04.2012 | Arigos Biomedical Receives $350K Grant | Arigos Biomedical, an early-stage company that develops methods of cooling organs for long-term storage, received an up to $350k grant from the Thiel Foundation.
The foundation awarded the funding through Breakout Labs, its new revolving fu... |
| 23.04.2012 | Inspirotec Receives $350K Grant | Inspirotec LLC, a Chicago, IL-based company that develops a universal system for collecting and identifying airborne agents, has received a grant of up to $350k from the Thiel Foundation.
The foundation has provided the award through Breako... |
| 23.04.2012 | 3Scan Receives $350K Grant | 3Scan, a San Francisco, CA-based start up that pioneers novel microscope technology to develop 3-D digital reconstruction of brain tissue, received an up to $350k grant from the Thiel Foundation.
The foundation is awarding the funding throu... |
| 21.04.2012 | Immusoft Receives up to $350K Grant | Immusoft, a Seattle, WA-based biotechnology company that is commercializing technology to program the human immune system by modifying the DNA in immune cells, has been awarded an up to $350k grant from the Thiel Foundation’s Breakout Labs.... |
| 17.04.2012 | Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs Awards $350K Each To Six Ambitious Biotech Startups | While most of us are still reeling in shock after last week’s one billion Instagram buy, Peter Thiel — through both Founders Fund and the Thiel Foundation — is leading the charge into a future where humans don’t age or suffer from cancer, a... |
| 26.10.2011 | PayPal co-founder launches Breakout Labs to fund early-stage science and tech research | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has launched a new ... |
| 26.10.2011 | PayPal co-founder launches Breakout Labs to fund early-stage science and tech research | PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has launched a new program called Breakout Labs that will fund early-stage science and technology research ideas, the entrepreneur said Tuesday during at speech at Stanford University.
Breakout Labs, which will... |
| - | One test to screen them all: Entopsis using AI to build low-cost diagnostic for multiple diseases | With the majority of diagnostics out there, you need to know what you’re testing for: A strep throat screener won’t tell you that you have breast cancer. However, that’s how many asymptomatic, but dangerous, diseases fly under the radar – e... |
| - | These 9 startups belong in a futurist’s guide to health technology (infographic) | A futurist map of disruptive healthcare technology of the future offers a stunning projection of what will be possible. What’s interesting is that much of it is already beginning to take shape in some form or another.
Developed by trend for... |
| - | Big data in pathology: 3Scan’s 3D tissue imaging platform offers reams of data on scale of gene sequencing | This one’s a big data play for the pathologist set: Bay Area startup 3Scan is developing an ultra high-res, 3-D tissue imaging platform that’s churning out data on the scale of whole-genome sequencing.
The startup just raised $6.7 million i... |
| - | Breakout Labs backs startups building wearable for the gut, stem cell treatment for bones | A wearable device that could transform how physicians diagnose the underlying causes of GI disorders is one of three innovative early stage life science companies Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs is backing. The program from the Thiel Foundation... |
| - | Peter Thiel’s ‘futuristic’ Breakout Labs funds three new life sciences startups | The Peter Thiel-backed Breakout Labs just funded three new life sciences startups: Neumitra, E3X Bio and Ion Dx – with platforms in the wearables, diagnostics and high-throughput screening spaces. They’re all prototypical Breakout Labs comp... |
| - | Breakout Labs backs antibacterials, genomics and biosensor tattoos | From California to Boston to NYC, four more startups have been accepted into the [Peter] Thiel Foundation’s Breakout Labs, a philanthropic incubator for seed-stage companies.
Founded in 2012, Breakout Labs has now invested in some 34 compan... |
