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Flagship Pioneering raises $3.6 billion to fuel critical breakthroughs in human health and sustainability. This expanded capital pool will accelerate the impact of original science and the creation and development of an estimated 25 breakthrough companies in human health, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. Hear from Flagship Founder and CEO Noubar Afeyan about how we're taking #BiggerLeaps by leveraging the power of generative AI, forging novel partnerships with pharma to speed drug development, expanding globally, and promoting and hiring top talent to our leadership ranks. Read the full press release: https://bit.ly/4eQfx05

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From the first fund back in 2000 until now, a lot has changed. The whole industry of biotechnology has changed dramatically. It's grown. It's got many new types of drugs that have been developed, many of them from companies that we have been involved with. The sector has really come into its own. Boston has become the real global hub for biotechnology. Just the level of excitement about what's even possible now, in the next generation and the next next generation of drugs, as well as products in agriculture. The recent wave of AI advances really goes back six years. That's around the time we started out in exploring the application of AI with Generate: Biomedicines. And from there, we've also expanded to doing AI for cell-based drug discovery more broadly, drug development using AI, DNA-based use of AI in order to design new DNA and new lipid nanoparticles. We've proliferated across many, many different aspects of the life science kind of value chain. The thrust in partnering with pharma and others really is an opportunity we see to be able to have even more impact, in a higher likelihood of success way, than if we did everything on our own. Historically, over the last 24 years, Flagship has been very much attentive to partnerships as ways to get more products from our platforms to the marketplace, and also as a learning mechanism, because a lot of our companies are very small and they have a lot to learn. We've done partnerships throughout this time frame, but the scale, the discipline, the plan-fulness by which we're doing this�� the scale at which we operate, makes this even possible. I feel very strongly that over the next few years, this is going to increase by leaps and bounds. The scale that we've reached across our ecosystem of some 48 companies really creates a resource there�� that there's a lot of interest globally to find ways to link with and to try to create value together. And that has really gotten us to explore in the UK first and then in APAC, particularly in Singapore. And these are our first forays outside of our geographically rather restricted ecosystem, Cambridge mostly, to now saying, how do we link this ecosystem with vibrant geographic ecosystems in Singapore, in South Korea, in Japan as well as in the UK? We have in fact been adding to our leadership ranks both through promotions and through additions. And this is really a testament to the fact that we continue to attract best of the best. And in fact, they attract each other because it's become a place where they are all feeling like "Boy, I've worked with these kinds of people before, but not so many of them all at the same time." And I think that's a real attractant, and I'm very happy to see everybody trying to just continue to increase the caliber and the scale at which we're able to contribute to our companies. We are working on unlocking completely new solutions to patients. That is an interesting and unique imperative that propels us to try new platforms, new modalities of medicine. New fields of biologies are also our obligation. So I think patients are now, and are going to in the future, even more so, benefit from this team's willingness to do things that people have not done before and learn how to get them to succeed and then have the impact that comes from them.

Rupert Vessey

Chief Scientist & Executive Partner at Flagship Pioneering

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Exciting news at Flagship Pioneering

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KSQ Therapeutics, Inc.

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Exciting news from Flagship Pioneering as they announce the raise of $3.6 billion to fuel breakthrough innovations that transform human health and sustainability. We are proud to be #FlagshipFounded and part of an ecosystem of companies – present and future – taking bold scientific leaps to deliver a better future for all.

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Siddharth Parulkar

CEO and Founder at PAR Clinical I Building Ecosystems to advance drug development I Podcaster: Framing The Foundation Podcast

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At PAR Clinical we are inspired by the Flagship journey and are embarking on a journey of our own!! Hoping for our paths to cross soon.

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Brad Smith, M.Ed.

Founder & CEO at Rootstock Philanthropy: Let's Grow Together

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Astonishing to imagine what this fund will do to improve the human condution. Congratulations, to you and your team at Flagship Pioneering, Noubar!

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Megan Martin

GSOC | Corporate Security | Travel Risk Management | ASIS Member

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Go flagship! We love working with companies that are part of the flagship family.

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Prof Frederic Cadet

Co-founder & Chairman of the Board at PEACCEL

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Congratulations Flagship Pioneering

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Lei Cochran, MS, MBA, PMP

Leadership in Program Management & Alliance Management

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Congrats, Rupert and Flagship Pioneering, for the expansion of fund and global footprint!! Looking forward to more exciting strategic partnership to accelerate drug development for human health!!

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Kevin Burke

Driving end to end Innovation and Digital Transformations in Life Science industry

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Congrats Flagship Pioneering! Exciting to see such success

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Jessica Yingling

Biotech PR and Thought Leadership

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Inspiring -- congratulations!

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Dani Stoltzfus

Making Biotech CEOs Win With Compelling Corp. Narratives, Decks, Websites, PR, Media, Social | Former Biotech Leader | Chemistry Expert | Founder + Owner Mighty Spark Communications | Mother of 3

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Congratulations Flagship Pioneering!

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