Brazen Bio

Confessions of a Brain Surgery Dropout (Road Show)! 🔪🧠 Brazen Bio cofounder—W. Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD—recently spoke frankly to medical and graduate students from LSU and Tulane in New Orleans about his ever-evolving journey to advance medicine from student to scientist to founder to creator to investor at Brazen Capital. The talk was held in the beautiful new New Orleans BioInnovation Center (NOBIC) on Canal Street, at the edge of the French Quarter. Thank you to the Biotechnology Interest Org (BIO) at LSU Health New Orleans Medical School for the invitation and for organizing the event and to 🧬 Kris Khalil 🧬 at NOBIC and the New Orleans BioFund for sponsoring and hosting. Other Road Show dates to be announced shortly. Reach out if you are interested in hosting/sponsoring a Road Show event! #BeBrazen #biotech #startup Brent M. Witgen, PhD Janet Escobar Liam S.C. Lewis Katherine Pohl Monica Berrondo

LATEST ISSUE: YC Demo Day debrief, the Higgs, Escobar... #scientistCEO #biotech #startup

"I’m actually NOT a purebred entrepreneur." 🧐 It's been about a year since my last interview so I'm so glad the latest one was with my dear friend Janet Escobar. The intro and questions were so thoughtful it's almost like she's a published author or something lol (she is). She got me to open up about things I haven't spoken on before which—for someone without a filter— is always an adventure. If you have 5-7 mins today and are into #biotech #startups #venturecapital #science #medicine #AI —and are not easily offended 😇—please check it out! Brazen Bio Brazen Capital Cure Glioblastoma

I applied to YC with my glioblastoma-focused startup OncoSynergy in 2018. We had already raised 8 figures from angels and were on the cusp of filing our IND to enroll our first clinical trial, but couldn’t get ANY traction from VCs. And we did not get a YC interview. … Glioblastoma is such a difficult disease that most investors and VCs can’t get past the risk. The only institutional investors I’ve seen to take that risk are the ones who, unfortunately, have been touched personally by it. This was true for Alexis Ohanian Sr. This was true for the VC who eventually led our Series A. And now it’s true for Y Combinator thanks to Surbhi Sarna. Obviously, it’s a horrible trend but as a soldier who has been in the trenches for over 20 years working on novel ways to battle this fucking disease it is great to see new powerful allies in the good fight. If you are working on technologies that may have applications to glioblastoma please consider applying to YC!

🎂 Celebrating 2 years of THB! Check out the latest issue... Brazen Capital W. Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD #biotech #startup #venturecapital #STEM #science #medicine #innovation

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🤖 What's this about BrazenGPT? New issue of THB just dropped... Brazen Capital W. Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD

Happy Anti-Valentine's Day, Brazeryens. New issue of THB just dropped... Brazen Capital W. Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD

JPM24 recap in a 24 second TikTok. ⚡️ It’s all about the people you surround yourself with. 🫱🏽🫲🏼 Shout out to (in order of appearance): Mika Eddy Ananya Zutshi Wesley A. Wierson, PhD Katherine Pohl, PhD Julia Moore Dana Watt, PhD Susanna Harris, PhD Shivam K. Shodhan Stig Hansen #biotech #startup #venturecapital #entrepreneur #innovation