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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
Batman; Investor X Computer Scientist. Founder
@_DimensionCap
ʞɹoʎ ʍǝuinstagram.com/zavaindar/Joined June 2010
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
UPDATE: Today
@nanli
@AGoulburn
& I are launching
@_DimensionCap
! A $350M venture fund, built to spec, to meet founders at the cutting most edges of technology & the life sciences 🚀🤖🧬 The world didn't need 'another venture firm'. An open letter to our future entrepreneurs:
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SOME NEWS: after a decade investing in the most brilliant interdisciplinary entrepreneurs on the planet, my best friends & partners @nanli @AGoulburn & I are joining forces on … *something new* ;) “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” - Anatole France
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Chris Gibson
@RecursionChris
Big day for open-science at Recursion! Releasing a 2.2M image, 100TB genome-spanning CRISPR KO dataset* in primary human cells alongside a demo of one of our internal apps. Kudos to the team for getting this ready! Can’t wait to see what the community finds/builds on top of it!
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Recursion
@RecursionPharma
We’re excited to release #RxRx3 - our largest public dataset yet, along with #MolRec – a demo compound intelligence tool open for anyone to explore. Both are built using a small subset (less than 1%) of our total data universe. DM us with any questions! rxrx.ai/rxrx3
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Dwight Crow
@dwightcrow
@zavaindar
,
@nanli
, & team are some of the best VC's I've ever engaged with. Can't wait to see them build an enduring firm and transform bio
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
UPDATE: Today @nanli @AGoulburn & I are launching @_DimensionCap! A $350M venture fund, built to spec, to meet founders at the cutting most edges of technology & the life sciences 🚀🤖🧬 The world didn't need 'another venture firm'. An open letter to our future entrepreneurs: twitter.com/zavaindar/stat…
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DIMENSION
@_DimensionCap
We contend capital serves as a lagging indicator, not forcing function, of fundamental innovation. For practitioners the realms of tech & life sciences are now one & the same. Yet capital markets remain dichotomous. DIMENSION exists to correct this dislocation & bridge the gap.
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BioSpace
@biospace
Are capital markets becoming antiquated, maintaining tech and biotech as siloed disciplines? That's what the group of founders, made up of three #venture capitalists, said, as Dimension I debuted today. hubs.li/Q01zcXYp0 #lifesciences #funding #biotech #tech #biospace
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Dan Widmaier
@dwidmaier
This is what this industry needs and I couldn’t be more on board. If you are an entrepreneur, this is the team to talk about you ideas with and be your early supporter. 🚀🦾🧬
@zavaindar
@AGoulburn
@nanli
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@zavaindar
UPDATE: Today @nanli @AGoulburn & I are launching @_DimensionCap! A $350M venture fund, built to spec, to meet founders at the cutting most edges of technology & the life sciences 🚀🤖🧬 The world didn't need 'another venture firm'. An open letter to our future entrepreneurs: twitter.com/zavaindar/stat…
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Nathan Benaich
@nathanbenaich
"If math is the language presented in our quest to understand physics, machine learning may very well be the mother tongue of biological systems to articulate the complexity of emerged systems phenomena." Let's go
@zavaindar
@nanli
@AGoulburn
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DIMENSION
@_DimensionCap
Introducing DIMENSION! A firm built from scratch to partner with trailblazing entrepreneurs building at the interface of technology & the life sciences to transform the trajectory of life on earth 🤖🧬 An open letter to our future entrepreneurs 🚀 dimensioncap.com/letter
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
Exciting day for
@RecursionPharma
👀
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Chris Gibson
@RecursionChris
Excited for ⁦⁦⁦@RecursionPharma⁩’s first Download Day in a few hours! Will be giving core investors, analysts and bankers a chance to meet our broader team, see the Recursion OS in action and get the latest on how we are leading technology enabled drug discovery!
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Sri Kosuri
@srikosuri
It was very useful getting help and insight (and often tough but honest feedback) from
@AGoulburn
and
@zavaindar
during the very earliest stages of starting
@OctantBio
. Excited to see where their next adventure leads and what companies they help build. Congrats!
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@zavaindar
UPDATE: Today @nanli @AGoulburn & I are launching @_DimensionCap! A $350M venture fund, built to spec, to meet founders at the cutting most edges of technology & the life sciences 🚀🤖🧬 The world didn't need 'another venture firm'. An open letter to our future entrepreneurs: twitter.com/zavaindar/stat…
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Finally, to our countless peers and fellow GPs in industry: your belief and conviction in DIMENSION, in the earliest & most formative of states, was more than we could have ever dreamed. You are all legends, we will always have your backs.
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
DIMENSION does not exist in a vacuum. Amidst the first venture bear trough in 15 years we are fortunate to have found a “zigging” cadre of thematically aligned allocators as our Limited Partners on Day Zero. We will be tireless on your behalf.
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@zavaindar
DIMENSION would not be possible without the founders we backed over the prior decade. You are trailblazers & amongst the leading most iconoclastic technologists & scientists on the planet. The universe aligned for us to cross paths, & you gave us your trust & partnership. TY.
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
I'm uniquely blessed to partner w/ the 2 smartest investors & most brilliant humans I know:
@nanli
&
@AGoulburn
. We came up in industry & honed our crafts together. I draw courage & inspiration from them. In HS we might have started a band, as our hairs grey we're starting a VC
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
One of the most concise and sharp analyses of what's happening in venture today, and why -- **independent of base rates** -- the next decade won't look like the prior.
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Bullfight Cap
@BullfightCap
The phrase "software is eating the world" is about to become a teenager: bullfight.substack.com/p/peter-pan-an
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
this foundation laid work behind investments in
@runwayml
,
@huggingface
, &
@primer_ai
... but an error of omission that'll haunt me is never finding an investible op in AI assisted (generative) programming and watching the absolute revolution that's happing right now with CoPilot
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@zavaindar
@karpathy so succinctly puts into writing a thesis we’ve built over the last 2 years at @lux_capital in Generative Code and Probabilistic Programs. This isn’t just a new framework for conceptualizing Neural Nets. It’s the evolution of programming itself. medium.com/@karpathy/soft
“In contrast, Software 2.0 is written in neural network weights. No human is involved in writing this code because there are a lot of weights (typical networks might have millions), and coding directly in weights is kind of hard (I tried). Instead, we specify some constraints on the behavior of a desirable program (e.g., a dataset of input output pairs of examples) and use…” from “Software 2.0” by Andrej Karpathy.
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
Thrilled to lead
@envedabio
’s Series B and bring much needed technical innovation and fundamental unlocks into the world of naturally occurring chemistry. With this round
@viswacolluru
and team have line of sight to translate multiple new discoveries into the clinic. LFG.
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Enveda Biosciences
@envedabio
Today we're proud to announce our Series B financing, led by Dimension with participation by @SVB_Financial and a deep bench of new and previous investors. Check out the @endpts piece and 🧵👇 for more on what we've built so far and what's coming next /1 (shorturl.at/oHMT8)
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Viswa Colluru
@viswacolluru
Today, we announced our Series B funding round, and I can't help but reflect on the journey that brought us here. In 2019, we had just an old laptop and $225,000 in funding. We had a fear of the unknown and a big dream to change where we look for new medicines. 1/
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Enveda Biosciences
@envedabio
Today we're proud to announce our Series B financing, led by Dimension with participation by @SVB_Financial and a deep bench of new and previous investors. Check out the @endpts piece and 🧵👇 for more on what we've built so far and what's coming next /1 (shorturl.at/oHMT8)
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Nathan Benaich
@nathanbenaich
Pretty awesome
@FT
first page: - Crypto produces biggest scam in history (meanwhile soaks up ooooodles of VC and LP money) - TechBio produces literally life saving covid therapeutics in record time and shows strong data for cancer vaccine (meanwhile is snubbed by VCs and LPs).
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Zavain Dar
@zavaindar
Congrats to
@c_valenzuelab
@agermanidis
@matamalaortiz
+ the entire
@runwayml
team!! h/t to
@mhdempsey
who first made intro when we led the seed at
@Lux_Capital
(.. & ty Runway team for taking me +
@AGoulburn
in and giving us shelter as wondering souls for 6 months this year :))
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Kenrick Cai
@kenrickcai
Scoop: Runway is the latest generative AI startup to raise a big funding round. Its software has legs, being used to edit Hollywood blockbusters and design shoes. Still, Runway must grow into its $500M valuation, a 100x+ multiple on its ARR. My story: forbes.com/sites/kenrickc
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