Alexey Morgunov is a Bio Venture Partner at BACKED VC who published first-author research in venues like Nature and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology on topics including synthetic genetic polymers and protein biogenesis. He leads BACKED's thinking on AI and biotech with his distinctive brains without hands thesis, which argues that the real bottleneck in AI-driven biology is not intelligence but physical execution through autonomous labs and experimental infrastructure.
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BACKED VC positions itself at the intersection of venture capital and events, running approximately 40 founder/investor events per year globally and hosting over 4,000 participants, making community-building via events a core part of their operating model. The firm focuses specifically on three frontier areas where they've already seeded unicorns—AI-native therapeutics, blockchain and banking infrastructure, and manufacturing automation—partnering with outlier founders building generational frontier-tech companies in spaces where most do not dare to build.
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