Breakout Ventures
Phylagen, which tracks indoor microbiomes, is “racing ” to meet return-to-work efforts
Two years into a worldwide pandemic, outfits around the globe are wrestling with how to resume their in-person operations safely. Consider that Apple just scrapped its office-return deadline, while Google,…
Breakout Ventures has a new, $112.5 million fund, backed by Tony Fadell, Chris Sacca and others
Breakout Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed- and Series A-stage venture firm that funds what it calls creative biosciences startups, has closed the second fund in its five-year history with $112.5…
VC Lindy Fishburne on the seemingly sudden democratization of science
Deep science investor Lindy Fishburne cofounded the seed- and early-stage venture firm Breakout Ventures several years ago, after cofounding Breakout Labs within the Thiel Foundation back in 2011, and she…
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 program that’s underwritten by Peter Thiel and that in 2011 began offering nascent science-focused startups…
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…
