#026: April 5th, 2021 - Longevity Marketcap Telemetry

1. Announcements

2. Capital Raise Radar

3. Last Week in Longevity

4. Longevity Futures

5. Longevity Jobs

6. New Companies on Longevity List 

7. Tweet of the Week

8. My Links

*Disclaimer: None of this should be taken as financial advice. It is for educational purposes only.

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📢 Announcements 

• Every Friday @ 12PM - 5PM EDT. Longevity Virtual Coworking. If you are working on longevity or thinking about getting into the longevity industry, please join me for an experimental virtual longevity coworking space using the Pluto.Video web app. (Sign in with Google account. No sign-up required.) 

  • Bring your work. 

  • Feel free to ask questions. 

  • Help out. Connect.

  • I plan on holding this weekly. It’s free. (Room Link)  

• The 1% Bet for Longevity-- a website initiative. 27 people have now signed up for the 1% Bet for Longevity Pledge. My goal is to get to 50,000 people and at least 100 companies to pledge 1% of their resources towards funding longevity companies and research by end of year. Qiao Wang, noted crypto and DeFi thought leader, has signed up and so can you! 

• Longevity List / Longevity Marketcap is Hiring! 

  • Biology Analyst and Literature Researcher // Part-time (~ 15 hours per week)

    • Scrape / collate aging research papers. Summarize and comment on their methods and main results.

    • Bonus if you have experience in NLP/ML.

📡 Capital Raise Radar

I do not endorse or have affiliations with any of the companies listed below. This is not an offer to buy or sell securities. This is for informational purposes only. If you have intel on any other longevity companies currently raising please email me. It’s free.

• Oisin Biotechnologies // Raising $5M // Slide Deck

  • Senolytic gene therapy using lipid-protein nanoparticle delivery vehicle. 

  • Kill cells that express p16 gene -- a marker of senescent cells. Inducible apoptosis gene with a p16 promoter triggered by a chemical dimerizer.

  • Team: Matt Scholz (Immusoft), Gary Hudson.

  • Seed round. Accredited investors only. $50K minimum check size. 

  • Other investors include The Methuselah Fund, Kizoo Technology Capital. 

• Ponce de Leon Health // Raising $15M // Article: 

  • Makers of Rejuvant Life Tabs, a calcium alpha-ketoglutarate supplement (CaAKG). Alpha-ketoglutarate is a key molecule in the Krebs cycle.