Good AI and Aether Bio: Partnering to create a Post-Scarcity future
Today, Good AI is excited to announce our latest investment in Aether Bio, a synthetic biology company that is tackling the scarcity challenges by engineering enzymes to create novel products for a sustainable future.
Such a vision where new products can be manufactured efficiently and sustainably came from Pavle Jeremic’s ( CEO of Aether ) dichotomous experience of growing up in the US and the war-torn ex-Yugoslavia. Realizing material atrocity is the root cause that has led to the violence, Pavle is determined to minimize the situation where people feel that they have to go to extremes in order to potentially salvage their life situation. With such a strong mission, Pavle and his team are driven to tackle the challenges by engineering biological enzymes using cutting-edge Machine Learning algorithms and extremely high-level robots.
Enzymes are a class of proteins that function as nanoscale factories, responsible for the manufacturing of every molecule in the natural world. They are capable of manufacturing enormously complex molecules all from simple building blocks. Harnessing the power of enzymes would give human beings the ability to synthesize any arrangement of atoms desired -- a technology that could unlock next-generation materials, therapeutics, and molecular products we can’t even imagine today.
While enzymes are the magic ingredients behind any new products, identifying the right enzymes for the desired reactions has been difficult. With millions of enzymes out there, enzyme discovery is nearly impossible. That is until now.
By blending high throughput robotics, machine learning, and synthetic biology, Aether is able to generate data to map the entire enzyme space, enabling the company to own 95% of the world’s biological manufacturing data in just three years.
Armed with such advantages, Aether is building a scalable platform that can support a diversified portfolio of products, a critical consideration for Good AI’s investment decision.
Co-investing with Artis Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Jeff Dean ( Google AI ), and many other luminaries investors, Good AI is so proud that we can be partnering with Aether to create a Post-Scarcity future.