Anthropic has bought stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal. Information And eric newcomer. Sources close to the deal confirmed to TechCrunch that it closed, though declined to comment on the numbers.
The deal comes as Anthropic continues its contribution to healthcare and life sciences October announcement Cloud for Life SciencesA tool intended to help scientific researchers discover.
Coefficient Bio’s founders, Samuel Stanton and Nathan C. Frey, launched the startup eight months ago, both of whom had worked in computational drug discovery at Genentech’s Precise Design. Coefficient Bio was using AI to help make drug discovery and other forms of biological research more efficient.
This team of approximately 10 people is expected to join Anthropic’s Health and Life Sciences team.
