Biotech startup Cyclica Series B pitch deck, using AI for drug discovery
Cyclica, a Toronto based biotech startup which uses artificial intelligence to learn and improve possible brand new treatments, closed a seventeen dolars million (twenty three dolars million CAD) Series B financing round on Wednesday, Business Insider has discovered.
The round was led by Drive Capital, a venture firm primarily based in Columbus, Ohio, and also included pharmaceutical business Chiesi Farmaceutici, GreenSky Capital, and people of Cyclica’s management group. The organization didn’t disclose its valuation.
Cyclica CEO Naheed Kurji told BI in an interview that the startup’s engineering is created to “flip the issue of drug discovery on its head.”
Medicines tend to be created under what is widely known within the pharmaceutical market as a “target centric approach.” The thought is which a medication is specially created to resolve a certain issue that’s creating an ailment.
But medications have unintended consequences. Tylenol, for instance, is going to get rid of the headache of yours, though it is able to also result in gastrointestinal issues.
