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Nan Li

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Founder @_DimensionCap

San Francisco Katılım Mart 2009
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Nan Li
Nan Li@nanli·
1/ Last March, I teamed up with @AGoulburn and @zavaindar to build a new venture firm from scratch. Beyond excited to officially launch Dimension (@_DimensionCap), a firm completely dedicated to the intersection of technology and the life sciences. dimensioncap.com
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Zavain Dar@zavaindar·
.@_DimensionCap is leading a $40M financing for Congruence, leveraging frontier AI & molecular dynamics for a best in class small molecule corrector platform. This financing brings this high powered nimble team into the clinic w/ 3 unique assets. LFG! endpoints.news/congruence-sta…
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Frank Gao
Frank Gao@ChemVagabond·
We @_DimensionCap ported @karpathy's autoresearch framework to biology. We let Claude run 50 experiments over the weekend on protein thermostability prediction via @modal. It beat a recent baseline (TemBERTure) using a 20x smaller model. Code + research blog later this week!
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trevor (taylor’s version)
over the past few years, llm inference has exploded over the next few years, molecular ai inference will explode tamarind is best-in-class for running these models, and i'm so stoked to see how much they've grown since they first started building this for themselves on campus
Deniz Kavi@kavi_deniz

Today, we announce Tamarind Bio’s $13.6M Series A, led by @_DimensionCap, with participation from @ycombinator. Tamarind has now become the trusted platform for molecular AI inference, serving tens of thousands of scientists, including 8 of the top 20 pharma, dozens of biotechs and research organizations. Since last year, we’ve grown revenue 7x and are grateful to work with world-class biopharma R&D organizations like @Bayer, @Boehringer, and Adimab. — When we started two years ago, a few brave biotechs took a chance with us. Hoping this new company, providing easy access to computational drug discovery tools, would enable their scientists to apply foundation models to real therapeutic applications. Since then, our library of AI models has grown to hundreds, not just open-source tools, but also our users’ internal protocols, proprietary models trained on users’ own data, pipelines of multiple models together and more! Now, we are doubling down on our commitment to building the core AI and data infrastructure to power the next generation of medicines. We will continue to support open models, strengthening them with proprietary data, and prioritize access to all scientists. Join us as we build the infrastructure for all AI-powered drug discovery.

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Nan Li@nanli·
Excited to announce @_DimensionCap's partnership with Deniz and Sherry on Tamarind Bio! They are building the unified operating system and inference cloud for life science and have been on a tear in the past year. Between landmark model access deals and dedicated supercomputer builds, BioPharma is making more software and ML investments and Tamarind has built a killer product to help with ML adoption. Super excited for the path ahead and read more about our involvement here: dimensioncap.com/blog/leading-t…
Deniz Kavi@kavi_deniz

Today, we announce Tamarind Bio’s $13.6M Series A, led by @_DimensionCap, with participation from @ycombinator. Tamarind has now become the trusted platform for molecular AI inference, serving tens of thousands of scientists, including 8 of the top 20 pharma, dozens of biotechs and research organizations. Since last year, we’ve grown revenue 7x and are grateful to work with world-class biopharma R&D organizations like @Bayer, @Boehringer, and Adimab. — When we started two years ago, a few brave biotechs took a chance with us. Hoping this new company, providing easy access to computational drug discovery tools, would enable their scientists to apply foundation models to real therapeutic applications. Since then, our library of AI models has grown to hundreds, not just open-source tools, but also our users’ internal protocols, proprietary models trained on users’ own data, pipelines of multiple models together and more! Now, we are doubling down on our commitment to building the core AI and data infrastructure to power the next generation of medicines. We will continue to support open models, strengthening them with proprietary data, and prioritize access to all scientists. Join us as we build the infrastructure for all AI-powered drug discovery.

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Deniz Kavi
Deniz Kavi@kavi_deniz·
Today, we announce Tamarind Bio’s $13.6M Series A, led by @_DimensionCap, with participation from @ycombinator. Tamarind has now become the trusted platform for molecular AI inference, serving tens of thousands of scientists, including 8 of the top 20 pharma, dozens of biotechs and research organizations. Since last year, we’ve grown revenue 7x and are grateful to work with world-class biopharma R&D organizations like @Bayer, @Boehringer, and Adimab. — When we started two years ago, a few brave biotechs took a chance with us. Hoping this new company, providing easy access to computational drug discovery tools, would enable their scientists to apply foundation models to real therapeutic applications. Since then, our library of AI models has grown to hundreds, not just open-source tools, but also our users’ internal protocols, proprietary models trained on users’ own data, pipelines of multiple models together and more! Now, we are doubling down on our commitment to building the core AI and data infrastructure to power the next generation of medicines. We will continue to support open models, strengthening them with proprietary data, and prioritize access to all scientists. Join us as we build the infrastructure for all AI-powered drug discovery.
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DIMENSION
DIMENSION@_DimensionCap·
Excited to welcome @nikhilvnamburi to the investment team at Dimension!! Nikhil brings an investment background in compute / ML infrastructure to the team and will help the firm continue to expand our work in cutting-edge technology and science. In addition to his domain expertise, Nikhil brings a deep curiosity for the technologies and the businesses shaping the modern internet and a passion for the craft of investing. Welcome Nikhil! dimensioncap.com/people/nikhil-…
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Nan Li@nanli·
Congrats to the @chaidiscovery team on a massive announcement today!! This broad-sweeping asset design deal with Lilly is groundbreaking in many ways and is another signal of a broad platform shift in life science driven by AI. endpoints.news/eli-lilly-chai…
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Simon Barnett
Simon Barnett@SimonDBarnett·
2026 will be a big year for ML architecture innovation. Sure, scaling and how we spend our tokens (e.g., at test time) matters a lot. But it's fascinating to look at how our understanding of human cognition has inspired waves of ML design improvements. Check these out 👇
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DIMENSION
DIMENSION@_DimensionCap·
We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with the @BioRender team! As scientists, engineers, and computational biologists ourselves, we’ve been long-time users of BioRender - many of us relying on it for years to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively. @ShizAoki + Ryan Marien + @KatyaSht have systematically built what has become an indispensable tool for builders and researchers - driving organizations globally. And the company has transformed how science is communicated - making research more visible and *legible* in a simple, highly efficient way. At a time when standardized, clear scientific communication has never been more important, BioRender is leading the way. And we’re excited to partner with a team so aligned with the future of how science is shared. biorender.com/blog/funding-a…
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Nan Li@nanli·
Massive congrats to @joshim5 @jackdent @Mattmcpartlon1 and the entire Chai team on the Series B milestone!! More importantly, on the many technical and product milestones that this oversubscribed financing was driven by. The Chai team are making tremendous progress on unlocking drug discovery with AI, successfully engineering molecules against challenging target and developability criteria. @_DimensionCap is thrilled to be partnered on the journey here. Great way to cap off a very active year and much, much more ahead!
Chai Discovery@chaidiscovery

We raised $130M in Series B funding at a $1.3B valuation to build the computer aided design suite for molecules. The round was led by @GeneralCatalyst & @OakHCFT along with existing investors @ThriveCapital, @OpenAI, @_DimensionCap, @Neo, @lachygroom, @MenloVentures, @svangel, and Yosemite. We're also joined by new investors including @EmCollective and Glade Brook.

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Zavain Dar
Zavain Dar@zavaindar·
i’ve never seen a small team marry ambition, pace, & rigor like @joshim5 @jackdent @Mattmcpartlon1 & team done at CHAI. in the small time since founding @chaidiscovery they’ve materially extended the frontiers of generative AI applied to bio today we’re announcing a $130M series B co-led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst to further accelerate this pioneering work!
Zavain Dar@zavaindar

Today we’re launching @chaidiscovery, led by @joshim5 & his polymathic world class cofounders. We’re also open sourcing Chai-1: a state of the art frontier model for biomolecular interactions. @_DimensionCap has co-led the founding round alongside Thrive & OpenAI

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Nan Li@nanli·
Dimension Wrapped 2025! Shoutout to @SimonDBarnett and @bauer_lesavage for taking lead on this year's @_DimensionCap Research Magazine. dimensioncap.com/research-mag-v… This is a compendium of internal research sprints and investment discussions that took place throughout this year. Please take a flip through and be on the lookout for a paper edition gracing the coffee tables of select labs, biotechs, and investment firms 😀.
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Nan Li@nanli·
Massive congrats to Chai on the latest model advancements!! Full length antibodies on daunting targets. Experimentally verified down to atom-level precision, with many developability criteria in check. 🤯 This is one of the most talent-dense teams in this space continuing to push the boundaries. Very cool to see and privileged to be a part of their journey at @_DimensionCap
Chai Discovery@chaidiscovery

Today, we’re releasing new data showing that Chai-2 can design antibodies against challenging targets with atomic precision. >86% of our designs possess industry-standard drug-quality properties without any optimization. Thread👇

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Chai Discovery@chaidiscovery·
Today, we’re releasing new data showing that Chai-2 can design antibodies against challenging targets with atomic precision. >86% of our designs possess industry-standard drug-quality properties without any optimization. Thread👇
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Jacob Kimmel
Jacob Kimmel@jacobkimmel·
.@newlimit has raised an additional $45M from new investors including Lilly Ventures, Duke University, @S32_VC, @AbstractVC & others. Insiders including @kleinerperkins, @_DimensionCap, @humancapital, @BoostVC also participated. This round was catalyzed by technical breakthroughs since our Series B just 5 months ago. Advances in our lead program to restore youthful liver function now give us the confidence to start planning clinical studies in the next few years. We're grateful to all the new & returning capital partners for supporting our mission.
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Chai Discovery
Chai Discovery@chaidiscovery·
🚀 Chai Discovery has been named to the Endpoints News 11 list of the most promising biotech companies of 2025!
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Simon Barnett
Simon Barnett@SimonDBarnett·
I'm thrilled that @_DimensionCap is leading @Odyssey_Tx's $213M Series D as they advance their pipeline through clinical trials. I've learned so much about immunology and inflammation over the past year, in large part due to Gary and his inimitable team at Odyssey. This is a space poised for substantial improvement over the coming years, whether that's through better formulations, new modalities, novel targets and mechanisms, more precise patient stratification, and the like. We're happy to be enablers of that tidal shift, whether it's at the company incubation stage, a Series D, or beyond into public markets.
Odyssey Therapeutics@Odyssey_Tx

Today, we announce the closing of a $213M Series D financing round. Thank you to our investors for supporting the advancement of our portfolio of clinical and preclinical medicines designed to precisely treat the drivers of complex autoimmune diseases. odysseytx.com/odyssey-therap…

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