Incubated by ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs, Xaira Therapeutics is on a mission to drive advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. We’re building significant AI research capabilities spanning fundamental computational methods development and their application to biological discovery, the design of drug-like matter, and clinical development.
Xaira emerged from stealth today with $1 billion in committed capital led by ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Capital, with additional investment from F-Prime Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sequoia Capital, LUX Speed Capital, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, SV Angel and others.
Xaira is led by renowned scientist Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, former Chief Scientific Officer of Genentech and former President of Rockefeller and Stanford Universities. Its executives include co-founder Hetu K, formerly of Meta and the Institute for Protein Design; Arvind Rajpal, formerly of Genentech; and Don Kirkpatrick, formerly of Interline and Genentech. Xaira was co-founded by Dr. David Baker, Professor of Biochemistry and Director of Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington.
Learn more about our launch from Ryan Cross and Andrew Dunn in Endpoints News.
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