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In the heart of Boston, amidst the intellectual hum of scientific innovation, Pepper Bio, self-styled as the "Google Maps for drug discovery," has emerged as a groundbreaking entity in the realm of pharmaceutical exploration. On November 30, 2023, the company proudly announced an impressively oversubscribed seed funding round, amassing $6.5 million. This financial infusion, spearheaded by NFX and bolstered by contributions from an array of investors including Silverton Partners, Merck Digital Sciences Studio,…

Whether you are a tech optimist or not, you have to acknowledge that progress rarely follows a straight line. While the world keeps getting better at churning semiconductors, we are still struggling to find new drugs to treat resistant diseases, and the process isn’t getting cheaper. Some hope that AI can help, and it likely will — when it comes to biotech, it is much more than a buzzword. But Boston-based drug discovery…

Pepper’s Compass platform offers insight into the real-time function of proteins, which can help in drug discovery. Boston-based start-up Pepper Bio has raised $6.5m in oversubscribed seed funding to develop its Compass drug discovery platform. The financiers included venture capital companies such as NFX, Silverton Partners, Mana Ventures and others. Pepper’s CEO Jon Hu told Pharmaceutical Technology that the Compass platform provides biological maps for insight into different “-omics”- genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics…

What You Should Know: Pepper Bio, the “Google Maps for drug discovery,” today announced an oversubscribed $6.5 million seed round led by NFX with participation from Silverton Partners, Merck Digital Sciences Studio, Mana Ventures, Tensility Ventures, VSC Ventures, and more. Pepper Bio is the world’s first transomics company, which maps data across all the -omics layers and translates it into the fastest route for discovering new drugs, finding new uses for existing therapeutics,…