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📣 Breaking news! BenchSci raised $95 million in Series D funding, led by Generation Investment Management with participation from Inovia Capital, TCV, Golden Ventures and F-Prime Capital. This brings our total funds raised to $218 million. Learn more: bit.ly/439wOv0

If you’re at #LabOfTheFuture, don’t miss this 👇 BenchSci’s Casandra Mangroo, is speaking in the AI-Driven Automation track on how we’re partnering with Thermo Fisher Scientific to bridge the dry lab + wet lab. Plus, connect with us at Thermo Fisher Scientific Booth #12

One way to kick off the weekend 🥇🥇🥇@Google @GeminiApp @BenchSci

Congratulations to our winners — and to every team who helped make BenchSpark a powerful showcase of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and life sciences. The future of drug discovery is in good hands.

Huge congrats to MultiHopWanderers! As this year’s champions, the team will receive: ✈️ A conference travel pack worth up to $7,500 CAD (including flight + hotel gift cards) 🍽️ An exclusive lunch with teams from BenchSci & Google Cloud at Google’s Toronto office

🏆 We have a winner — MultiHopWanderers!

To our finalists: congratulations. Your work reflects exactly what BenchSpark was built to inspire — bold thinking at the intersection of AI and life sciences. Winners will be announced soon! Stay tuned.

What impressed us most? 🔬 Strong scientific grounding 🤖 Smart application of AI tooling ⚡ Clear focus on usability and impact

🏆 And then there were finalists. After two days of building at the BenchSpark Hackathon powered by Google Cloud, our judges have selected the top teams: ✔️ Lazy Coders ✔️ Shaquille O'Neal ✔️ MultiHopWanderers ✔️ QueryQuest

@googlecloud While deliberations are underway, participants are joining a panel discussion with BenchSci team members. The focus? 🔬 What it’s like to build at the intersection of science and machine learning 🤖 How we use AI in our work 🚀 What a career at BenchSci actually looks like

📩 Submissions are officially in. After two days of intense building, teams at the BenchSpark Hackathon powered by @googlecloud have submitted their MVP AI co-scientists. Now, our judges are reviewing. 🧠⚖️

@googlecanada @googlecloud With guidance from BenchSci and Google Cloud mentors, these prototypes are quickly evolving from ambitious ideas to tangible solutions. Final demos are just hours away — and we’re seeing firsthand what’s possible when AI expertise meets life-science curiosity.

@googlecanada @googlecloud After a high-energy first day of ideation and building, teams are back at it this morning—focused on refinement: strengthening their AI co-scientists, validating outputs, and ensuring their tools can meaningfully support real preclinical research workflows.

☀️ Day 2 of the BenchSpark Hackathon powered by Google Cloud — and the momentum hasn’t slowed.

@googlecloud @googlecanada The energy? Still high. The focus? Locked in. The clock? Ticking. ⏱️

@googlecloud @googlecanada As the sun sets in Toronto, teams at the BenchSpark Hackathon powered by @GoogleCloud are still deep in the build. Refining models. Troubleshooting code. Pushing their AI co-scientists further. ⚡

The workday may be winding down… but the hacking isn’t. 🌆💻

Laptops open. Whiteboards full. Coffee flowing. ☕💻 Teams are deep in build mode — architecting, testing, and iterating on their MVP AI co-scientists in real time. This is what innovation in action looks like.

@googlecloud @googlecanada Stay tuned — we’ll be sharing highlights as the hackathon unfolds.

@googlecloud @googlecanada ⏱️ 48 hours. 🔬 Cross-disciplinary collaboration. 🌍 Real-world impact.

🚀 The BenchSpark Hackathon powered by @GoogleCloud is officially underway!