What an incredible week! Last week, our Managing Directors, Eileen Tanghal and Tara Bishop MD, MPH, travelled to Vegas to attend HLTH USA, where they caught up with industry friends Alice Zheng from Foreground Capital, and Ian Chiang and Victor Lanio from Flare Capital Partners. They also met with portfolio companies, Conduce Health, Hyro, and FlyteHealth to discuss exciting developments. Back in NY, Karthik Ramasubramanian and Hanna E. attended an event at the NYSE. It is great to see our team in action from coast to coast! 🌟
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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Building Brilliant Tomorrows
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At Black Opal Ventures, we’re bringing rare, everlasting value to future technologies. Our deep background of expertise, unique perspectives, and radiant positivity will enable a diverse spectrum of tomorrow’s doers, thinkers, and changers.
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Jodi Hubler
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Tara Bishop MD, MPH
Founder of Black Opal Ventures | Former CCO Bind & McKinsey Medical Director | Cornell Medicine Professor
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Congratulations to the team at AuthMind on this esteemed recognition!
We are excited to share that AuthMind has been named a gold winner in the 2024 Globee Awards for Business (International). The award highlights AuthMind's commitment to excellence, innovation and outstanding achievements in the business world. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d-pdTZep
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Congratulations to Optellum on being awarded a grant to advance AI in lung cancer care! 🎉This is an important step in ensuring earlier diagnoses and improved patient outcomes, while easing the burden on clinicians.
📣 Optellum Awarded Grant to Advance AI Imaging Technology 📣 💡 Optellum, a leading innovator in artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging for lung cancer, has secured joint funding from the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) and the Office for Life Sciences’ (OLS) new £148 million cancer programme to conduct a study on the impact of its AI product on early diagnosis of lung cancer. 🤝 In partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the AI product in relieving pressure on radiology departments and improving patient outcomes by enhancing diagnostic accuracy and supporting the early detection of cancers. 👉 Read the full release: https://lnkd.in/eWHeCSkt #LungHealth #Optellum #LungCancer
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Early stage investor and Founder, Black Opal Ventures, formerly IQT, ARM and Applied Materials
An amazing evening with my hubby at The Tech Interactive annual “The Tech for Global Good Celebration” with the theme “AI for Good” honoring Dr. Fei-Fei Li with the James C Morgan Global Humanitarian Award sponsored by my former employer Applied Materials . Congratulations Gloria T. Chen and John Heinlein, Ph.D. for being on the board of such an amazing institution. It was very special for me to spend time with a group of my ex colleagues, bosses and mentors like Simon Segars and John Kibarian who have continued after 25 years of knowing them to support tech for good. I also had an opportunity to hang out with Sameer Halepete who has been in charge of all VLSI design at NVIDIA for the last 22 years. As Dr. Li said “It takes people from all walks of life to create human centered AI” to ultimately improve life for everyone. #techforgood #AIforgood Black Opal Ventures
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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝙑𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙤 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 What does a MacArthur Genius, the iPhone, and Picasso have in common with Conceivable Life Sciences helping millions achieve the dream of becoming parents? The answer lies in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝙑𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙤 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚. Watch it now… #IVF #AutomatedIVF #Automation #biotechnology #innovation #fertility American Society for Reproductive Medicine - ASRM European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
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Exciting news from our portfolio company, FlyteHealth!
Meet Gabe Castaneda, FlyteHealth’s new chief revenue officer, a 25-year healthcare veteran, who’s excited to be part of a team revolutionizing obesity care! We're also pleased to name Dr. Cheryl Pegus as executive board chair and look forward to her helping to more effectively advance our mission to democratize access to medical obesity treatment. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ge87FwcH
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2 years ago I left IQT (In-Q-Tel) to expand on my personal mission of investing in tech for good with Black Opal Ventures,check out my article on how my experience with both are related #hardtechhealth Nanxi Liu Shlomi Yanai Rajeev Shrivastava
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Founder of Black Opal Ventures | Former CCO Bind & McKinsey Medical Director | Cornell Medicine Professor
We are thrilled to be a 2024 Growth Investor Awards: Investing in Women 2024 Finalist in the category of Best Team of the Year. Our team is amazing and we're thrilled by this recognition! Eileen Tanghal Dr. Carina Tyrrell Heather Eve C. Hanna E. Karthik Ramasubramanian Simon Segars Tamra Lair
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In our latest blog, Eileen Tanghal reflects on her time at IQT (In-Q-Tel) and lessons from the intelligence sector that can be applied to healthcare. At Black Opal, we believe that by leveraging cutting-edge technology, companies can tackle some of the biggest challenges in healthcare, security, and safety and improve outcomes for all. "As we move into a future where edge compute and 6G connectivity can cause another 10-100x increase in data sources for healthcare, I believe healthcare practitioners can garner a few lessons from the defense and intelligence agencies. Having supported members of several agencies, ranging from homeland security to the CIA, I can tell you that their work is highly complex, relying often on perceptions and experience alongside data. These dynamics are not unlike the doctor-patient relationship in healthcare."
What the healthcare industry can learn from the intelligence sector
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Congrats to our collaborator and mentor David Baker for winning The Nobel Prize for computational #proteindesign! For decades, scientists have dreamed of creating #medicines through protein engineering but were limited by the molecules found in nature. Just as custom parts revolutionized personal #computing, custom proteins have the potential to revolutionize #precisionmedicine. At David Baker’s Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, the founders of Outpace Bio pioneered the ability to create new biological functions from scratch by designing #proteins with moving parts and precise interactions. For the first time, custom proteins could be made to specifically address the biological mechanisms that stand in the way of #curing #disease. At Outpace Bio we are laser-focused on harnessing the power of #proteindesign to revolutionize #celltherapy for #solidtumors and are proud of our ongoing collaboration with David Baker at UW to access new #machinelearning algorithms for our #proteindesign capabilities to advance our mission. #NobelPrize #AI #proteindesign #celltherapy
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. The diversity of life testifies to proteins’ amazing capacity as chemical tools. They control and drive all the chemical reactions that together are the basis of life. Proteins also function as hormones, signal substances, antibodies and the building blocks of different tissues. Proteins generally consist of 20 different amino acids, which can be described as life’s building blocks. In 2003, David Baker succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was unlike any other protein. Since then, his research group has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors. The second discovery concerns the prediction of protein structures. In proteins, amino acids are linked together in long strings that fold up to make a three-dimensional structure, which is decisive for the protein’s function. Since the 1970s, researchers had tried to predict protein structures from amino acid sequences, but this was notoriously difficult. However, four years ago, there was a stunning breakthrough. In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Life could not exist without proteins. That we can now predict protein structures and design our own proteins confers the greatest benefit to humankind. Learn more Press release: https://bit.ly/3TM8oVs Popular information: https://bit.ly/3XYHZGp Advanced information: https://bit.ly/4ewMBta
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