Worth: Tom Kalil’s Renaissance Philanthropy Recruits Wealthy Science Funders

“These projects are also challenging to do in an academic setting because they require a larger group of people than you have in a single academic lab…So, what they proposed was to create non-profit science startups. So because they’re philanthropically funded, they can work on things that are difficult to monetize. But because they [have] an organizational structure that looks more like a startup, they can do things that would be very difficult to do in an academic setting…

These are projects that are working to lower the cost of mapping the brain by a factor of 100 [E11 Bio], lowering the cost of single-cell proteomics by a factor of 100 to a thousand [Parallel Squared], developing the technology that we need for MRV—the monitoring, reporting, and verification for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal [[C]Worthy].”

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