Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' "tacit knowledge" (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)
Transfyr is pitching lab know-how as data AI can preserve and reuse.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts startup has come out of stealth with a $25 million seed round. Its stated target is science’s reproducibility problem: the gap between written protocols and what researchers actually learn at the bench. Techmeme’s note points to Carl Zimmer’s New York Times piece on the company’s plan to capture that “tacit knowledge” inside labs. Techmeme's note
The Cambridge, Massachusetts startup has come out of stealth with a $25 million seed round. Its stated target is science’s reproducibility problem: the gap between written protocols and what researchers actually learn at the bench. Techmeme’s note points to Carl Zimmer’s New York Times piece on the company’s plan to capture that “tacit knowledge” inside labs. Techmeme's note
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