

Network Bio
Links academic medical centres' biobanks under shared sample and data standards and trains disease models on patient tissue, paired blood, molecular data and clinical outcomes; its first model, Exai-1, reads cell-free RNA in blood.
Money and evidence
Latest round, Round (unnamed), 2026-08-19: the record then held 1 research entry, highest level 3. The first research entry is dated 2025-12-10; the highest level so far is 3 (Checked against existing evidence).
Rounds and research, on one timeline
- 2026-08-19Round (unnamed)Round
$50M
For: expand its life sciences platform for training AI models on multimodal patient data
Models and platformData generation
The launch financing; the release names no lead or stage. Read as reproduced by SynBioBeta and Pulse 2.0, since Business Wire's page refuses automated readers; the company's own site lists the release. Headquarters is as AI Weekly reports from the WSJ's story.
Section 32Thiel Bio
Founders FundBreyer CapitalBlue Venture FundJSL Health CapitalOn the deal: Mike Pellini (Managing Partner; Chairman of Network Bio's board; spoke for the firm, Section 32, joins the board); Morgan Cheatham (Partner; spoke for the firm, Breyer Capital)
By this date the record held 1 research entry, highest level 3
Announced by the company · synbiobeta.com ↗On the timeline →
- 2025-12-10Research
Level 3 · Checked against existing evidence
Exai Bio's Exai-1, a model trained on small RNA fragments in blood, makes cancer classifiers work from
fewer samples A blood test for a rare cancer usually fails for lack of patient samples to train on. A model pretrained on many people's blood that lets a classifier learn from a few dozen cases is what would make such tests buildable. The same representation also let a classifier trained on plasma keep working on serum, where the raw-feature classifier dropped from 0.74 to 0.56. Network Bio, which Goodarzi co-founded, now presents Exai-1 as its first model.
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