vyom
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india ke paas paise ki kummi nahi hai. awareness ki hai. BioCompute, Anagha Rajesh 's company, has raised over 5 crores over the last 2 years from: WTF fund, Grad Capital, 1517 Fund and more. If I wrote about all the awards that she has won in the last two years, I would miss the point. The point is: she is leaving. For two reasons: 1. Capital 2. Talent In one of the many conversations i have had with her, this one stuck with me: "There are Indians in the US who I know I will be hiring. They don't want to raise their kids there. They want to come home." So this isn't about talent either. It's about money. If there's capital for people like Anagha, starting with Anagha, the dam will break. Bring our men and women home. Spread the word. If you're a VC interested in being part of BioCompute's Seed round, email me: [email protected] or check the link in bio. And by the way, this isn't a last ditch effort to help Anagha raise her Seed round. She has commitments in SF. that's quite literally why she is moving there. This is a small attempt to keep bleeding edge DNA storage technology within Indian borders. I believe in Anagha. Music: Bloom by Radiohead End slate music: Jaago by Lifafa
vyom575,517 views • 1 month ago
why did we put chaar diwari inside of a bacterium's dna? because a silicon chip can only fit transistors till the size of atoms. however, a single gram of DNA is so dense that theoretically it can store over 200 petabytes of data. DNA is so durable that info on it can survive for hundreds of years at room temperature. tldr; DNA can be silicon chips and even better. and biocompute is early. $3500 per MB, is a cost that most DNA companies put it. mainly because DNA is expensive to make from scratch. but a chemical engineer from BITS Pilani thought what if there's no making it from scratch and we just pick it out of abundant bacteria? at 23, Anagha is chasing the impossible. and all this is happening in a small lab in 1st Block Koramangla, Bengaluru. her cost? $1 per MB. a person who deeply cares. that's what india needs. but she wants to go further, $1 per TB of storage. which is theoretically possible with a 'micro-fluid' drive. beating the cost of existing storage solutions at $5-6 per TB. and hence, to show this one of a kind journey, chaar diwari is now immortalised inside of a bacteria's dna.
vyom266,399 views • 2 months ago
"A loonshot is something nobody has dared to do before. A goal so ambitious that you don’t even know if its possible." -- naman pushp of airbound (substack, 2022) i am 23 now. i have one skill, it's the ability to tell stories. i want to talk about indians building on research.
vyom27,313 views • 2 months ago
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