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SERIES A$150M$850M valuationCo-founded by Eric SchmidtSpun out of UCL + King's College London$200M upfront to MeiraGTx for Parkinson's gene therapyDrug development + diagnostics + investment in one entity
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Hologen, AI Biotech Co-Founded by Eric Schmidt, Raises $150M Series A at $850M Valuation

Hologen, co-founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is raising $150M at an $850M valuation, combining AI drug development with a $430M MeiraGTx gene therapy partnership for Parkinson's disease.

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Building open datasets forAI drug discovery€60MPFESGC18partners9countries5-year project · Led by Pfizer + SGCProtein-ligand binding data made freely availablefor the entire research community
Virtual Screening

LIGAND-AI Consortium Launches with 60 Million Euros to Build Open AI Drug Discovery Datasets

The LIGAND-AI consortium launched with over 60 million euros in EU funding, bringing 18 partners led by Pfizer and the SGC together to generate open datasets of protein-ligand interactions for training AI drug discovery models.

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NVIDIA×Eli Lilly$1B5-year AI co-innovation lab · South San FranciscoBioNeMo + Blackwell DGX SuperPOD · scientist-in-the-loop
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NVIDIA and Eli Lilly Announce $1 Billion AI Co-Innovation Lab to Reinvent Drug Discovery

NVIDIA and Eli Lilly announced a $1 billion AI co-innovation lab in South San Francisco, combining Lilly's pharmaceutical expertise with NVIDIA's BioNeMo platform and Blackwell-powered supercomputing to reinvent drug discovery.

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INSILICO MEDICINE · JAN 2026$888MOncology deal with Servier$292M IPOHong Kong Stock Exchange · largest biotech IPO of 2025+45%day one15 cornerstone investors incl. Eli Lilly, Tencent, TemasekFirst AI-discovered drug (rentosertib) positive Phase 2a
Target Discovery

Insilico Medicine Strikes $888M Oncology Deal with Servier Days After Hong Kong IPO

Insilico Medicine announced an $888M oncology partnership with Servier days after raising $292M in the largest Hong Kong biotech IPO of 2025, with shares surging 45% on debut.

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Target to preclinical candidateTRADITIONAL2.5 — 4 yearsINSILICO AI8 monthstime savedInsilico Medicine × Hisun PharmaceuticalPandaOmics + Chemistry42 + inClinico
Target Discovery

Insilico Medicine and Hisun Pharma Nominate Preclinical Candidate in Just 8 Months Using AI

Insilico Medicine and Hisun Pharma nominated a preclinical candidate in just 8 months using the Pharma.AI platform, dramatically compressing a process that typically takes 2.5 to 4 years in traditional drug discovery.

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