YC is telling us that there may be a lot of value in batching and accelerating these types of products/companies. Maybe we should start a biotech focused accelerator (as opposed to software) that turns post-doc chemists/biologists (as opposed to software engineers) into rockstar founders.
Something like this is already being done. Indiebio just launched in SF and they are doing great work at bringing in pot-doc chemists and biochemists and de-risking their academic work and turning them companies.
Disclaimer, my company Pembient is in the first class.
There are already many well-established biotech accelerators/incubators in Boston (Lab Central, PureTech Ventures, Third Rock Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Atlas Venture, etc.), Seattle (Accelerator Corporation; also in NYC), NYC (Harlem Biospace), and San Diego/Montreal/Vancouver (Inception Sciences).
