Elliot Hershberg

@ElliotHershberg

Partner @AmplifyPartners, writing centuryofbio.com

San Francisco, CA

centuryofbio.com

Joined October 2011

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Elliot Hershberg
@ElliotHershberg
Jun 5, 2025
Announcing Amplify Bio 🧬 I've joined Amplify Partners to help build a $200M fund dedicated to technical founders in bio. This has been part of a long evolution—from writing code as a computational biologist, to writing >200k words about this sector in The Century of Biology,
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Elliot Hershberg
@ElliotHershberg
Sep 20
Xinchen is a highly underrated thinker at the intersection of AI and Bio. Worth reading the motivations + strategy for Waypoint's platform they've built in pursuit of out-of-distribution medicines!
Xinchen Wang
@xinchen_w
Sep 20
AI in biology may have a data problem before it has a model problem. It’s easy to use AI to make drug discovery faster & more efficient. The much harder challenge is discovering impactful medicines humans would never have found. AI models are only as useful as the data they
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Elliot Hershberg
@ElliotHershberg
Sep 15
“That's part of what makes frontier drugs worth pursuing. You may need to invent both the molecule and the way to discover it. If you succeed, you can leave behind more than one medicine: you can make a whole class of problems look more tractable.” Great post by @srikosuri. One
Sri Kosuri
@srikosuri
Sep 15
Today, there's a strong focus on fast-follows of existing drugs. The drug programs that inspire me look different – the target is known, but we don't know how to build the drug, often requiring the dev of new tech that paves the path for more drugs.
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Frontier Drugs
Building drugs no one knows how to make The drug targets I find most interesting are often ones people have known about for decades. The evidence that the target matters is unassailable. A mutation...
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Elliot Hershberg
@ElliotHershberg
Sep 14
We're hosting an evening event for engineers, researchers, and builders at the intersection of AI in Biology. If you're in the area on 9/24, come join us!
AI x Bio Builders Night @ Stanford · Luma
From luma.com
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Elliot Hershberg
@ElliotHershberg
Sep 14
Major props to @lennypruss who was Temporal's first ever investor. Technical founders can build massive businesses!
Amplify Partners
@AmplifyPartners
Sep 14
We are incredibly excited to announce Temporal's Series E. It wasn't so long ago that we met Max and Samar working on open source Cadence at Uber. Fast forward and they're at 4K+ paying customers, a $12.55B valuation, 200%+ NDR 🔥
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Temporal
@temporalio
Sep 14
We did it again. Temporal just raised a $550M Series E round at a $12.55B valuation. Learn more about how we got here: temporal.io/blog/temporal-…
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