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Today, an entrepreneur can start a software startup with little else apart from an idea and a laptop. The vibrant ecosystem of software startups is a direct result of decades of progress in infrastructure (e.g. the internet, cloud services, open source software) that have abstracted away large parts of the complexity of running a business. This has made it possible to focus on solving specific problems and create immense value at low cost by combining and extending existing technologies. This dynamic is absent in the pharmaceutical industry: the costs, complexity, and technology required to develop a new drug are immense—and rising. Nearly two years ago one of our founders wrote a history of Paul Janssen, a Belgian physician who founded what would become one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies when he was just 27. He set up his fledgling company on a spare floor in his parent’s firm, with a loan of 50,000 Belgian francs (~$12,000 today). It would be effectively impossible t

Convoke Raises $8.6M to Build the AI Operating System for Biopharma - Convoke | Biopharma's new workspace Introducing the Convoke Unmet Needs Index Read Article Platform About Blog Join Us Contact us News Convoke Raises $8.6M to Build the AI Operating System for Biopharma Aug 19, 2025 Aug 19, 2025 Today, an entrepreneur can start a software startup with little else apart from an idea and a laptop. The vibrant ecosystem of software startups is a direct result of decades of progress in infrastructure (e.g. the internet, cloud services, open source software) that have abstracted away large parts

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