🌟 I'm thrilled to congratulate my friends, mentors, and former teammates at Formation Bio on a tremendously successful fundraise! 🌟
"Bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently" is an incredibly important mission. It also represents an incredibly long and difficult journey—one that I know Benjamine Liu would emphasize the team is just getting started on, despite how far we've already come!
What does one fundraise mean for such a journey? It means well-deserved confidence in the team and its culture to realize the mission. It means realistic optimism for the vision of a world where every disease has a treatment. It means excitement in the potential for innovation at the intersection of AI, tech, and pharma. It means conviction to champion the mission.
It's also a recognition of Ben's vision and unwavering resolve -- virtues that influenced me tremendously, as I know they have every Spark. I am immensely proud of this team, and excited to see more and more positive impact on the world through their journey. I'm beyond grateful for the portion of that journey I was able to make with them, and for the personal growth and learning imparted.
Here's to the journey ahead, bringing new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently 🚀💡
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We are excited to announce our $372MM Series D financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with major participation from Sanofi. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lachy Groom, and Emerson Collective also joined the round, along with new investors SV Angel and FPV Ventures.
At Formation Bio, we believe that building a culture and team that continuously innovates across the intersection of AI, tech, and pharma is one of our biggest competitive advantages. We are grateful to be working with two organizations at the forefront of AI, tech, and pharma: Andreessen Horowitz and Sanofi.
We are excited to welcome Scott Kupor, Managing Partner at a16z and Alfred Lin, Partner at Sequoia to our Board of Directors, alongside existing board director Michael Moritz, Sr. Advisor to Sequoia Heritage and board observer Kareem Zaki, Partner at Thrive Capital.
I’m grateful to our team members, advisors, and partners for all of their efforts to get us to where we are today but even more excited to share the journey ahead to create this generation’s tech and AI-native Pharma company.
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With a $372M megaround, Formation Bio looks to in-license 10+ drugs
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