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In an apparently unprecedented move, Eli Lilly is partnering with the fabled venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz on a new fund backed with $500 million of the drug giant’s money. Most drug companies have venture funds, which they use both to make investments and to scout out potentially important scientific and technological trends. But it is unusual for a drug giant to co-manage a fund with an existing venture capital firm, or for a venture capital fund to source its capital from a
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In an apparently unprecedented move, Eli Lilly is partnering with the fabled venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz on a new fund backed with $500 million of the drug giant’s money. Most drug companies have venture funds, which they use both to make investments and to scout out potentially important scientific and technological trends. But it is unusual for a drug giant to co-manage a fund with an existing venture capital firm, or for a venture capital fund to source its capital from a
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Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is, although we concede this may depend on your tolerance for frigid temperatures. Nonetheless, blue skies and a shiny sun are enveloping the Pharmalot campus, where the official mascots are hunting wildlife and we are engaged in the usual rituals — firing up the coffee kettle in order to brew a cup of stimulation (the choice today, hazelnut mocha) and foraging for items of interest.
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