Episteme: Reactorfield outcome

Episteme is a new R&D institution, co-founded by Louis Andre and Sam Altman, backed by SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.

Merge Labs is a research lab building higher bandwidth, less-invasive brain-computer interfaces that connect with neurons using molecules instead of electrodes, transmit and receive information using deep-reaching modalities like ultrasound, while avoiding implants into brain tissue.

• Merge Labs was co-founded by leading BCI researchers, Sam Altman, Alex Blania, and Sandro Herbig.

Marathon Fusion produces the world’s most valuable isotopes with compact, commercial fusion reactors.

• Founded by a team from SpaceX, Schmidt Futures and Princeton, Marathon is supported by $18m in funding and revenue across the US Department of Energy, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and leading private investors.

Retro Biosciences is a clinical-stage longevity company aiming to add ten healthy years to human life.

• Backed with a $180 million check from Sam Altman in 2022, it has since raised at a reported $1.8 billion valuation.

Radify Metals is rebuilding a critical-minerals supply chain through the conversion of metal oxides into high-purity metal.

• The company has raised just under $3 million from Overture, Founders Inc., Mana Ventures, and Acequia Capital.

Kopra Bio is a YC-backed oncology company developing viral immunotherapies that turn cancer cells into local factories for their own destruction.

• The UCSF spinout closed a $9.1M seed co-led by Boutique Venture Partners.

Xilio Therapeutics is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company engineering cancer therapies to activate chiefly inside tumor microenvironments.

• Publicly traded on Nasdaq (XLO), Xilio has raised over $200M to date.

Strand Therapeutics is an MIT spinout building programmable mRNA medicines.

• Its total funding exceeds $250 million, including Regeneron Ventures, ICONIQ, Amgen Ventures, the family office of former J&J CEO Alex Gorsky, and Eli Lilly.

Dr. Brian S. Kim, MD, is Northwell Health's Chief Biotech Officer.

• Northwell Health is New York's largest health system and employer, serving over 3M patients annually.

Vera Mucaj, PhD, is an EIR at Mayo Clinic, where she helps turn leading clinical science into new ventures.

• Previously, Vera was Datavant's Chief Scientific Officer and employee #8. She led the life sciences product portfolio and founded the clinical trials business, which was adopted in over 250 trials by most top 20 pharma and biotech companies.

Foundation Industries is modernizing the way frontier-hardware teams get parts made.

• The YC-backed manufacturer delivers rapid domestic CNC machining, including two-day turnaround, through a software-native workflow connecting CAD upload, specifications, quoting, payment, and production tracking. They will serve in the long term as the physical world API for the frontier.

Mass Magnetics is a YC-backed startup building high-performance permanent magnets domestically from recycled rare-earths.

• The founders previously built battery pilot-production lines and materials-science labs for NASA, Draper Labs, and MIT.

Kathy Liu is a Harvard PhD student and previous Fulbright Research Fellow designing smart materials for med tech, swarm robotics, tactile sensing, and bio-interfacing electronics.