Meanwhile, the applications ofGenAIgo way beyond chatbots and copyright-grey-area image artistry.

In synthetic biology, people use engineering principles to design and build new biological systems.

Scientists can use parts of DNA or other biological elements to give existing organisms new abilities.

Dutch biotech startup bags €22M for proprietary generative AI model

Thats a really complicated task because DNA is basically an alien programming language.

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Which is where Cradles web-based software comes in.

woman in lab coat performing experiments

This equals fewer and more successful experiments, drastically reducing R&D time and costs.

For most projects, this means they can proceed at twice the speed compared to the industry average.

Because I have two young daughters who are three and six.

Cradle team offsite

And the answer could not be I was a plumber for an advertising company.

And that more of these companies start existing in the world.

It is now working on more than 12 R&D projects including vaccines and antibodies.

Linnea Ahlgren

The team currently consists of 20 people, split between Delft, the Netherlands and Zurich, Switzerland.

The latest funding round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Kindred Capital.

Story byLinnea Ahlgren

Linnea is the senior editor at TNW, having joined in April 2023.

Dabbles in gaming and fitness wearables.

But first, coffee.

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