Ben Lamm

Breaking is a plastic degradation company gestated at Colossal Biosciences that uses synthetic biology. Its flagship product, X-32 was discovered in 2022 at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Co-founded by Sukanya Punthambaker, Vaskar Gnyawali, George Church, Don Ingber, Alba Tull, Kent Wakeford, and Ben Lamm.

Form empowers scientists to harness the data, computing power and collaboration that drive how todays breakthroughs are made.

The Worlds AI platform is revolutionizing how companies leverage video cameras and sensors to automate their daily operations. Its advanced capabilities and flexible architecture enables users to address a wide range of challenges throughout the enterprise.

The Arch Mission exists to help humanity fulfill its purpose in the universe by preserving and transmitting our most important knowledge to the stars, via specialized archive devices called "Archs"​ (tm) that are designed to spread and persist across vast distances of space and time.

The Waterloo Greenway Conservancy is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and maintain an extraordinary urban park system and a restored Waller Creek, in partnership with the City of Austin, for the benefit of all. The Conservancy renews the natural environment, promotes play, health and wellness, economic vitality and mobility, and engages the community through outreach, education, cultural events, and the arts. Waller Creek Conservancy, in partnership with the City of Austin, is developing a chain of parks around a restored Waller Creek in downtown Austin. Running from Waterloo Park at 15th Street to Lady Bird Lake, the new Waller Creek parks district will include more than 35-acres of newly designed and connected urban parks and public open space, and more than three miles of new hike and bike trails, along with engaging art and educational programming. Founded on the bedrock of great design, the revitalized Waller Creek will renew the natural environment, foster the creative arts, and nourish authentic and uplifting experiences that reflect Austin’s diversity and dynamic spirit.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

Symbiot is a risk metrics appliance manufacturer specializing in providing decision support on information security issues for government and industry IT environments. The product is focused on aggregating information security data then providing a risk metric score and a single view of a security event. Symbiot is committed to the open source community with Symbiot.net, a central repository for attacker profiles based on the cooperative surveillance and reconnaissance gathered by all network participants.

Breaking is a plastic degradation company gestated at Colossal Biosciences that uses synthetic biology. Its flagship product, X-32 was discovered in 2022 at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Co-founded by Sukanya Punthambaker, Vaskar Gnyawali, George Church, Don Ingber, Alba Tull, Kent Wakeford, and Ben Lamm.

Form empowers scientists to harness the data, computing power and collaboration that drive how todays breakthroughs are made.

Making extinction a thing of the past. Colossal is a breakthrough bioscience and genetic engineering company that builds radical new technologies to advance the field of genomics. Colossal creates disruptive technologies for extinct species restoration, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems that support the continuation of life on Earth. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction. Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state, while also solving for the future economies and biological necessities of the human condition through cutting-edge science and technologies.

The Worlds AI platform is revolutionizing how companies leverage video cameras and sensors to automate their daily operations. Its advanced capabilities and flexible architecture enables users to address a wide range of challenges throughout the enterprise.

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