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EPISODE · Jun 30, 2025 · 36 MIN

We raised $50 MILLION to develop new medicines using AI: Laksh Aithani

from Founders and Builders · host Joe Wear

🧬 Most new medicines are billion-dollar bets made in the dark.Charm Therapeutics is changing that — using AI to design drugs that actually work.Laksh Aithani, co-founder and CEO, joins the Founders and Builders podcast to break down how AI is transforming drug discovery — and why Charm raised $50M from Nvidia, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures to do it.We talk about:– The wild science behind protein folding– Why most drugs still fail in trials– How Charm slashes R&D timelines using DragonFold– What it really takes to build a biotech company at 27This episode is a window into the future of how medicine gets made.

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