Playground GlobalPlayground Global is an incubator, accelerator, and venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is established by Andy RubinAndy Rubin, Bruce Leak, Matt Hershenson, and Peter Barrett. It is based in Palo Alto, California. As of March 2019, the firm has 29 companies and its portfolio and has sold off its shares in five companies. Its most recent investment was in December 2018 for RightHand Robotics, a company developing robotics solution for supply chain purposes.
Genome Project-write had a suggestion from Golden's AI approved byA few weeks prior to the Science publication, a meeting that was closed to the press was held in May 2016 by George Church and collaborators along with 130 invited scientists, lawyers, entrepreneurs and government officials which discussed the feasibility and implementation of a project to synthesize large genomes in vitro. The private nature of the meeting was met with some criticism, with Laurie Zoloth of Northwestern University an Drew Endy of Stanford UniversityStanford University publishing an article in Cosmos documenting their disapproval.
V1.VCV1.VC is a seed stage venture capital and private equity firm that is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Brett Jackson, Bart Lorang, and Benny Joseph. The firm invests in early stage North American companies with a typical investment size of $100,000. Notable investments made by V1.VC include: Allbirds, FlipFlip, Clora, Arta, Automox, Stream, GreatHorn, Twine, Dharma, Metamoto, Sail Internet, RBC Signals, Vitae, Kepler, Chowbotics, and MegaBots.