Thomas Clozel, Owkin | What does AI Biotech really mean | E10

In an online special, we’re interviewing Thomas Clozal, the co-founder and CEO of Owkin. We talk about scaling AI in biotech and how it feels to be the child of billionaire biotech parents.💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKERThomas founded Owkin in 2016 and I first met him in 2017. At that time, Owkin was still a baby and I wasn’t sure where it would go. Now it’s a unicorn following a $180M investment from Sanofi in 2021 and has over 300 employees. 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED - Exscientia Expands Biologics Design Capability with Automated Laboratory investors.exscientia.ai/press-releases/press-r… Marc de Garidel, Abivax | How to make two billion 💶 exits (kind of smoothly) | E09 youtu.be/njZR8udGBTQ- How AI Can Tackle Cancer - Leader in Innovation (Fast Company) open.spotify.com/episode/2LQGtAaD7ALSsHslNZJ1m… Aviv Regev leads Genentech's next revolution with AI - endpts.com/aviv-regev-leads-genentechs-next-re…
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[00:00:00] Intro
[00:01:26] You need a good pipeline
[00:09:24] How Owkin is scaling AI in biotech
[00:16:46] Augmenting AI in biotech
[00:23:05] How AI can work for small/medium biotech companies
[00:27:18] Always looking for more data
[00:33:58] Anonymization of data and federated learning
[00:42:18] Becoming a biotech company
[00:47:29] Small molecules
[00:49:10] Limitations
[00:51:51] Growing up with billionaire biotech parents
[00:56:37] Becoming unfocused and having fun
[01:09:02] Getting the best investors
[01:18:51] Thanks for listening