Thomas Farb-Horch - CEO of Thrive Bio

Send us Fan MailThis week on the Life Science Success podcast, my guest is Thomas Farb-Horch.  Thomas is the CEO of Thrive Bio.  He has been involved in the founding of 18 pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, software, and AI companies, 7 of which have been unicorns. Currently, he is CEO and Co-Founder of Boston-based Thrive Bioscience, which commercializes instruments and software for a critically important but neglected area of life sciences, which is imaging, analytics, and automation of cell culture, cell-based research, and cell therapeutics.   Thomas Forest Farb-Horch has experience automating cytology labs and now seeks to improve cell culture labs through Thrive. Thrive aims to improve the low chances of therapeutics getting from bench to patient by transforming cell biology. Thrive's technology collects large, comparable data sets that make better cells, which is important for bringing cell therapeutics to the market. Thrive's data sets and images are valuable to researchers because they can see things that they never saw before and make faster decisions. Thrive is transforming viral plaque assay, which is the standard way of studying viruses, and can now track plaques from day 2 instead of waiting for weeks. Thomas is concerned about divisiveness, duality, and false dualities, and the lack of equality of opportunity, education, and health. Thomas is excited about solving big, ignored problems and changing the world.