{"id":1045381,"date":"2026-10-28T07:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045381"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:50:24","slug":"swiss-ai-drug-trial-startup-receives-funding-from-spotify-backer-creandum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/swiss-ai-drug-trial-startup-receives-funding-from-spotify-backer-creandum\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss AI drug trial startup receives funding from Spotify-backer Creandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: Swiss AI start-up Atlast Bio, which runs drug trials on virtual patients, has received $12.5 million in funding led by Swedish venture capital firm Creandum, an early backer of Spotify and Trade Republic, the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>* Atlas Bio is aiming to replace Phase II drug trials, which it says cost more than $100 million, take two to three years and see about 70% of drugs fail at that stage<\/p>\n<p>* An AI foundation model, trained on about two million human RNA readouts, would replace these and animal testing with 12-week simulations, the company said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: Swiss AI start-up Atlast Bio, which runs drug trials on virtual patients, has received $12.5 million in funding led by Swedish venture capital firm Creandum, an early backer of Spotify and Trade Republic, the company said on Tuesday. * Atlas Bio is aiming to replace Phase II drug trials, which it says cost more than $100 million, take two to three years and see about 70% of drugs fail at that stage * An AI foundation model, trained on about two million human RNA readouts, would replace these and animal testing with 12-week simulations, the company said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045382,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045381\/revisions\/1045382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}