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AminoChain founder Caspar Barnes proves that the only rule in startups is that there are no rules. By using blockchain to let patients track their donated bio-samples and earn "points" when they are commercialized, he is shifting healthcare from an extractive process into a "bioethical flywheel". Listen to the full conversation now, on The Further, Faster Podcast. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXMAS6Yk

In this episode of The Further, Faster podcast, Jeff Becker sits down with Caspar Barnes, the founder of AminoChain. Caspar's journey began at age 12 when a diagnosis of malignant melanoma sparked a lifelong fascination with biology. After discovering that patients lose all "agency" over their bio-samples once they leave the operating room, Caspar set out to build a decentralized research ecosystem. Now, after raising $7.8 million from Andreessen Horowitz, AminoChain is building a platform that lets patients track how their donated samples are used in preclinical and clinical research—and even earn money back when those samples are commercialized. This episode is a must-watch for aspiring founders, biotech enthusiasts, and patient advocates who want to see how a personal experience with cancer transformed into a mission to give patients true agency and financial stakes in the multi-billion dollar medical research industry. Watch now 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXMAS6Yk

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Caspar Barnes is using a $7.8M fundraise to close the 'agency gap' in healthcare, giving patients the power to track and profit from their own bio-samples. Caspar's journey began at age 12 when a diagnosis of malignant melanoma sparked a lifelong fascination with biology. After discovering that patients lose all "agency" over their bio-samples once they leave the operating room, Caspar set out to build a decentralized research ecosystem. Listen to the full conversation now on The Further, Faster Podcast. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXMAS6Yk

A few years ago I remember sitting in a team room at Klarna with Giovanni Casula and Mattia Scolari just after downloading Cursor for the first time. This was our tipping point; we realized that developer workflows would never be the same. But we kept coming back to one question - what could this mean for finance? We realized that disposable financial models were costing us more than we thought. Not just in time, but in context. We began to wonder: what if corporate finance teams had tooling and intelligence as good as what was available to engineering teams? Today we’re sharing our answer. Galdera Labs: financial modeling built for reasoning, not just reporting. To accelerate the vision, Galdera has raised a €1.5M pre-seed round led by J12 (Emmet King) with participation from Antler (Tobias Bengtsdahl) and an incredible group of angels from tech and finance leaders like Klarna, DeepL, Stripe, and Banco Plata - among others. It’s early, but the conviction and support from this team has been nothing short of incredible. We’re currently onboarding with a select group of early partners. If you are an operator in the CFO office, FP&A, or investor relations and thinking about bringing agentic workflows to finance lets connect. We're just getting started.

Why does it still take three weeks to get business insurance? It doesn’t have to. Harper (YC W25) is proving that AI-native workflows can do in 24 hours what traditional brokers take 21 days to finish. With $46.8M in new funding and a system that lets one broker handle the work of 50, Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair are changing the game for local businesses everywhere. Their mission is simple- make Harper the natural first step for every entrepreneur opening their doors. Read the our full profile on Harper now 👉https://lnkd.in/ez-VdTsM

In this episode of The Further, Faster Podcast Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder and CEO of Choco explains that "playing offense" meant refusing to hibernate or simply cut costs during the industry-wide shutdown. Instead of waiting for the world to return to normal, he used that mindset to pivot the company's entire strategy. Listen to the full episode 👉 https://lnkd.in/emBMjPyg

In this episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Christoph Klink sits down with Daniel Khachab, the Co-Founder and CEO of Choco, to discuss the high-stakes journey of building a global food-tech powerhouse. Daniel shares his "near-death experience" of checking his business dashboard before a flight from New York and landing in Berlin seven hours later to discover that 98% of Choco's revenue had vanished due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. Rather than hibernating, the team chose to play offense, launching an online grocery store across 17 countries in just three weeks to save their distributors' food from going to waste. The conversation dives deep into Daniel's provocative thesis on the future of technology, where he argues that traditional SaaS is being replaced by "interface-less" AI. Daniel provides a masterclass on speed and the necessity of disrupting your own business before someone else does. This episode is a must-watch for anyone interested in the intersection of food sustainability, physical AI, and the relentless pursuit of global scale. Watch now 👉 https://lnkd.in/emBMjPyg

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