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How automotive exec Crystal Brown founded CircNova, an AI drug discovery biotech


Tiny Michigan biotech startup CircNova has raised a $3.3 million seed round for its technology that uses AI to target so-called "circular RNA." The

CircNova has developed a “proprietary AI engine that allows us to identify, design, and then produce novel, non-coding, circular RNAs,” Brown told TechCrunch. The tech is based on the work of CircNova cofounder Joe Deangelo, the startup’s chief scientific officer and previous CEO of biotech Neochromosome as well as the former CSO of Apex Bioscience. “We are no stranger to the resilience that is needed when you engage in the journey of entrepreneurship,” Batts said, adding that she knew she wanted to back this new venture “the moment” she met Brown and heard about the idea.

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