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Altitude Lab's Demo Day 2024 Showcases Utah's Thriving Biotech Ecosystem‍

Demo Day 2024 represents the pinnacle of Altitude Lab's efforts in supporting founders to build biotech startups with the resources available in Utah. As a capstone event of their Startup Nitro program...

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Altitude Lab Relocates to Gateway’s BioHive Hub

Altitude’s new facility will be housed within Recursion’s expanded headquarters and will promote increased collaboration in Downtown Salt Lake City’s rapidly growing biotech innovation ecosystem...

May 25, 2023
Resident Story

3 BioTech Founders on What They Wish They Knew Before They Started

It's safe to say that starting a biotech company is not for the faint of heart. I interviewed three of our resident biotech founders with vastly...

November 17, 2022
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How To Build An Effective Pitch Deck Without Asking For An NDA

Reputation is at the heart of these particular professions, and good investors are careful not to...

October 17, 2022
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How to Apply and Succeed at Altitude

Altitude offers two programs serving entrepreneurs at different stages of starting a company...

September 29, 2022
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Can A Grad Student Start a Health Care Company?

According to the Wolters Kluwer CT Corporation Survey, 61% of recent graduates want to start their own business. 45% find it very probable...

September 26, 2022
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Exclusive Fireside Chat: Akash Bakshi on Developing Non-Hormonal Contraceptives for Men

I'm really honored to have Akash here with us today. Akash Bakshi is CEO and founder of Your Choice Therapeutics...

August 19, 2022
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Altitude Lab just raised the largest volume of seed capital for healthcare startups in Utah’s history

According to numerous sources over the past several years—including US News and World Report and the Wall Street...

May 13, 2022
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Health Care Innovation is Utah's Next Great Economy

With more venture funding, companies, and jobs than ever, Utah's health care innovation economy is outcompeting emerging markets across the country.

May 2, 2022
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First Cohort of Startups Closes Over $50M in Seed Capital

Altitude Lab's first cohort of startups raises the largest seed round in Utah's history.

March 30, 2022
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Altitude Lab Launches Investor Coalition

Lux Capital, Mubadala Capital, DCVC and 10 other national healthcare investors bring access to capital and mentorship to Altitude Lab's founders.

June 8, 2021
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Altitude Lab's Chandana Haque is honored as a Woman to Watch

Altitude Lab's executive director is named one of 2021's 30 Women to Watch by Utah Business Magazine

May 10, 2021
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A Vital New Element in Utah's Innovation Ecosystem

University of Utah's PIVOT Center highlight's Altitude Lab as a pivotal new development in Utah's technology landscape in its 2020 Innovation Report.

January 29, 2021
Podcast

Giving Utah's Early-Stage Companies a Distinct Advantage

April young Bennet from the Governor's Office of Economic Development talks to Chandana Haque, Altitude Lab, on how Utah's life science economy is changing--in all the best ways.

January 20, 2021
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abc4Utah covers Altitude Lab

Sarah Martin covers the opening of Altitude Lab with Chandana Haque on Good Morning Utah.

September 3, 2020
News

Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2020 Demo Day

Altitude resident, Known Medicine, is highlighted TechCrunch's coverage of YC's second virtual demo day this year

August 24, 2020
News

Altitude Lab Brings New Generation of Biotech Development to Utah

Recursion and the University of Utah launch region’s largest life science incubator

August 11, 2020
News

Y Combinator startup grows mini-tumors to take the guesswork out of personalizing cancer treatments

From targeted drugs to immunotherapies, oncologists rely on certain presumptions to select treatments for their patients. Known Medicine wants to take away that guesswork.

August 11, 2020
Blog

Sending the Ladder Down While Still Climbing

On January 3rd, 2014, I sat alone in a nearly empty conference room (Recursion’s first office). I had taken the leap (and a leave of absence from medical school) to start Recursion.

August 11, 2020
News

Recursion and Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization to Jointly Launch Incubator

Life science and technology startups led by members of underrepresented communities will be encouraged to apply

March 1, 2019
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Building a Start-up Ecosystem for Utah Biotech Entrepreneurs

Building a company from the ground up is hard. Building a biotech from the ground up can be even harder.

January 28, 2019

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