Once again, one of Prime Movers Lab’s portfolio companies was named to Time Magazine’s annual list of the Best Innovations. This year, Dalan Animal Health earned the honor for its breakthrough animal vaccine. In other news this month, Atom Computing became the first company to build a 1,000 qubit quantum…

Prime Movers Lab’s portfolio companies took critical steps in September to commercialize their breakthroughs and several raised new capital, including Lyten, which raised a $200 million Series B round. In other exciting news, Mycoworks began production at its new facility in South Carolina that could grow millions of square feet…

At the heart of Prime Movers Lab’s deep technical and scientific diligence process are our research fellows and squads. Every fall and spring, we select a new cohort of research fellows to help us delve into specific innovation categories that we think need a breakthrough or are on the verge…

This article originally appeared in Fast Company on June 12. Read the original here. As a startup founder and investor, I’ve had the good fortune of assembling multiple boards and serving on more than a dozen startup boards over the last decade. I’ve seen some incredibly effective board members as…

Electric vehicle (EV) sales leaped 55% in 2022. Just in the US, EV sales are expected to go from a sub 5% market share today to estimates that range from a conservative 30% to an ambitious 50% market share by 2030. However, the industry’s future remains contingent on the ability…

Check out the latest headlines from across the Prime Movers Lab portfolio, including Axiom Space’s $350M Series C and Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 progress ahead of test flights in Mojave later this year. Vaxxinity also published positive trial results for its active immunotherapy candidate, UB-311, in Alzheimer’s. In addition, CarbonCapture Inc…

Agriculture is the foundation of civilization. No industry touches more lives, and no industry’s success is more critical to our continued flourishing. Modern agriculture is a story of incredible success, enabling unprecedented increases in food production and population growth, but the industry faces the daunting challenge of feeding the global…

We are currently experiencing a golden era of progress in the development of artificial intelligence. Large language models are providing a level of general-purpose communication that most wouldn’t have predicted just a few years ago. Computer vision is yet to experience such a large step forward. While models are rapidly…

As summer temperatures increased in July, breakthroughs at a number of Prime Movers Lab portfolio companies also heated up. Atom Computing and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced a collaboration to explore how quantum computing can help optimize electric grid operations. In addition, both of our fusion energy portfolio companies…