📣 Announcing the inaugural winner of the Gibson Founder Fellowship! Carmen Kivisild, PhD, founder and CEO of Elnora AI, is the first winner of the Chris and Summer Gibson Founder Fellowship – a new program which provides early-career scientists with up to $150,000 in funding, scientific support, and mentorship to accelerate the growth of their startups at the Recursion-supported @AltitudeLab in Salt Lake City. 🔹 Why Elnora AI Founded by Estonia native Kivisild, Elnora is building an AI-powered lab protocol optimizer that captures real-world experimental data directly from academic researchers. The AI platform is designed to accelerate experiments and help researchers get results faster while building a comprehensive dataset for drug discovery. 🔹 What the Fellowship Means “The Gibson Fellowship gave us critical funding and an anchor community as we relocated from Estonia to Utah,” says Kivisild. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be mentored by @RecursionChris while rapidly scaling Elnora at Altitude Lab.” 🔹 The announcement of the Fellowship comes alongside a number of key milestones for Altitude Lab, including: ▪️ $154 million raised by Altitude startups since the incubator was launched in 2020 ▪️ 19 startups in Altitude Lab’s current cohort and 12 alumni ▪️ 70% of startups led by at least one underrepresented founder ▪️ 90% of all participating startups have raised capital ▪️ Peel Therapeutics completed a Phase 1 trial for its PEEL-224 TOP1 inhibitor and closed the first tranche of its Series A ▪️ Rebel Medicine received IND approval for Alevatrix and closed the first tranche of its Series A ▪️ Sethera Therapeutics established Dr. Robert Langer, MIT faculty and co-founder of Moderna, as chair of their Scientific Advisory Board ▪️ Teiko launched a 25-marker spectral flow cytometry assay on fixed whole blood, combining high-throughput immune measurement of ~150 populations with extended stability for global clinical trials. “In 2025, we anticipate a wave of Series A funding rounds from our alumni and broader founder community,” says @Chandanananana, executive director of Altitude Lab. 👉 Read more: ir.recursion.com/news-releas… 👉 Apply for the 2025 Gibson Founder Fellowship at altitudelab.org