We recorded our AI Wave podcast a few weeks before the public market SaaSpocalypse. Since then, roughly $1T has been wiped from software and services stocks. The narrative: AI makes software easier to build and models are increasingly doing the work that renders SaaS products useless. So,software is dead?
8VC stepped into life sciences to bridge the gap between groundbreaking biomedical innovation and real-world patient care. Our collaborations with visionary scientists have already begun transforming deadly diseases into manageable conditions, and in some cases, outright cures. Despite the immense potential of advanced diagnostics and therapies, however, rare disease medicine remains starkly underdeveloped. At their core, the unmet needs in rare diseases are not only scientific or medical challenges, but fundamental misalignments of commercial and societal incentives.
A pioneer in the data privacy automation (DPA) category, LightBeam is on a mission to empower organizations to manage and access their sensitive data securely.