* We hit 500+ subscribers on this little newsletter this week, I am so humbled by how much the journey of building a hard technical company resonates with people from across the world. I started this newsletter as a way to document my journey for myself, and it has evolved into a community of supporters. Onward and upward as we take DNA data storage to the market!
I was in Hyderabad from 8-10th August.
- Spent time visiting and speaking to folks at T-Hub and CCMB. Fascinated by how the startup ecosystem in Hyderabad is evolving and how interdisciplinary they are becoming; also spent a decent amount of time chatting with scientists and engineers across domains
- Visited the I-Hub at IIIT Hyderabad, and spoke to the person leading it, who has incidentally spent a lot of time at data storage hardware companies before.
- Gave a little lecture to the students and faculty at IIIT Hyderabad on DNA data storage. Got a LOT of questions about how exactly this works, that got me thinking. A shoutout to Dr. Prasad and his student Ihsan at IIIT for making this happen and for giving our work a lot of visibility.
Image Description: With Dr. Prasad and Ihsan, after I made them walk a kilometer to get back the water bottle I had forgotten in the lecture hall
I was in Mumbai from 14-16 August.
- Spent some time at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing explaining our work, and discussing potential collaborations (stuff is brewing, will keep you posted)
- Met a bunch of interesting folks from across domains interested in supporting our work with capital and networks, it’s always interesting to catch up in person instead of over a screen, some stuff under works
- It was raining like crazy, so I largely curled up in my super comfy Airbnb reading until I had to fly back to BangaloreMy US Visa has FINALLY come through.
I will be in SF in September (and hopefully Boston, and New York as well), let me know who are folks I should meet, what are events I should be at.We are working on figuring out tons of stuff around lab automation, both mechanical and fluidic.
If you work on anything closely related, do reach out for a chat. Also, do send relevant folks my way if you know excellent engineers in this space.We are looking to chat with folks in electrochemistry.
If you have strong fundamentals and have worked on exciting projects (regardless of industry, whether it was a personal/an academic project), do reach out.A lot of exciting stuff happening in the DNA data storage space
a. The Scale Lab at Imperial College London just put together an end to end integrated DNA encoding-decoding system that can be controlled using an app
b. Catalogue DNA just published an interesting paper on scaling compute in DNA (which I will talk more about in a subsequent blog)Here are some reels that made our team laugh this week, I will believe they will make you laugh too, check them out
