VenoStent vs Superluminal Medicines
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Houston TX YC W20 clinical-stage AV fistula wrap for dialysis patients with 200-patient RCT underway; $22.8M total ($20M Good Growth/Norwest Series A Jun 2024 + $3.6M NIH grant) targeting vascular access failure competing for dialysis market.
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VenoStent is a Houston, Texas-based clinical-stage medical device company — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $22.8 million in total funding including a $20 million Series A in June 2024 led by Good Growth Capital and IAG Capital Partners with $4 million from Norwest Venture Partners, plus a $3.6 million NIH SBIR Phase II Grant — developing SelfWrap, a bioabsorbable perivascular wrap designed to improve arteriovenous (AV) fistula patency rates for chronic kidney disease patients requiring hemodialysis access. Having initiated clinical sites and enrolled first patients in a 200-patient randomized controlled trial (RCT) across multiple US centers in 2024, VenoStent targets the 600,000+ American dialysis patients who depend on reliable vascular access as their lifeline.
Boston AI GPCR drug discovery with $1.3B Eli Lilly collaboration Aug 2025 for obesity/cardiometabolic; $158M total ($120M RA Capital/Insight/NVIDIA/Lilly Series A Sep 2024) with MC4R obesity program advancing to IND competing with Relay Therapeutics.
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Superluminal Medicines is a Boston-based biotechnology company — backed with approximately $158 million in total funding including a $33 million seed in 2023 and a $120 million Series A in September 2024 led by RA Capital Management with Insight Partners, NVIDIA's NVentures, and Eli Lilly — developing AI-driven small molecule drugs targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), combining artificial intelligence, protein dynamics simulation, and structural biology to discover drugs for 70% of GPCRs that currently remain "undruggable" despite GPCRs representing the target class for approximately 35% of all FDA-approved drugs. In August 2025, Superluminal secured a landmark $1.3 billion collaboration agreement with Eli Lilly to discover small molecule therapeutics for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, and is advancing its lead internal MC4R agonist program (for obesity treatment) toward IND-enabling studies with human trials expected Q4 2026. Founded in 2022.
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