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L everaging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is good news: We need more companies attacking cancer from novel angles, including AI-enabled early detection. And who knows, maybe one of these will become a trillion-dollar company? — Anna Y Combinator’s newest request for startups (RFS) is well worth reading, and not just because it’s been a while since the incubator shared the ideas and categories its partners “would like to see more people working on.” As my colleague Sarah Perez noted, YC hadn’t updated its full list since 2018. Y Combinator puts out a new call for startups in areas like AI, spatial computing, climate tech and more Taken as a whole, YC’s RFS is a great way to sense the zeitgeist; the list includes AI of course, as well as climate tech, defense tech and more. But zooming in on individual requests is also a worthwhile exercise. One of the requests that captured my interest calls for “a way to end canc

Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans | TechCrunch Image Credits: DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images Biotech & Health Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans Anna Heim 10:00 AM PST · February 17, 2024 Leveraging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is good news: We need more companies attacking cancer from novel angles, including AI-enabled early detection. And who knows, maybe one of these will become a trillion-dollar company? — Anna Scaling early cancer detection Y Combinator’s newest request for startups (

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