Pepper Bio, known as the “Google Maps for drug discovery”, has secured $6.5m in a seed funding round oversubscribed by investors including NFX, Silverton Partners and Merck Digital Sciences Studio. Comparable to how Google Maps amalgamates data, Pepper Bio’s COMPASS platform deciphers multiple layers of biological maps to bolster treatment development. Pepper Bio emerged from stealth mode in 2021 to concentrate on pharma partnerships.
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