NVTC Newsletter No. 3

Happy Tech Tuesday, and welcome to the NVTC weekly newsletter! Here you’ll find recent updates from the tech world, insightful articles related to startups and highlights from NV portfolio companies.

THIS WEEK’S FEATURES ⚡

⭐ Unlearn – Digital twins and a new direction for clinical trials.

⭐ Big Apple – Apple enters the satellite market.

⭐ Positive Energy  – Recycling batteries and replicating blowholes.

⭐ No Laughing Matter – Progress in human/robot relationships.

🌐 What the Hack – Uber is in desperate need of security engineers.

My questions for you: what would you have done as a hacker in Uber’s internal system? What would you comment to expose yourself to everyone? Send back an email with your reply!

STARTUP HIGHLIGHT

You probably have some virtual version of yourself, whether that be on social media, email, or even a personal website. But have you ever wondered what your digital twin would look like?

Unlearn knows exactly what your digital twin would look like. As freaky as it sounds, wait to call 911 until you hear the amazing things the company is accomplishing. Unlearn’s goal is to create a service that processes historical clinical trial datasets to build disease-specific machine learning models. In turn, these models could be used to create digital twins with corresponding virtual medical records, enabling more efficient clinical trials.

Unlearn is the first company to ever do this, and today, it works with pharma sponsors, biotech companies, and academic institutions to optimize clinical studies. A key result of this groundbreaking technology is it reduces the size of control arms in trials. This eases the enrollment bottleneck that drives up time and cost. With Unlearn’s technology, patients get more access to potentially beneficial treatment instead of a placebo.