Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

Computational Systems Immunologist @Stanford @Freenome Using data, machine learning, and genomics to understand how the human immune system works! He/Him/His

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

As #DiaDeMuertos reminds us to remember our loved ones who have left us, I'm so touched and very grateful to see the story behind the trial named after my mom out there with some history of why I have become a scientist ☺️ TVTB mamma ❤️ #EarlyDetectionSavesLives

[Freenome @freenome]

Freenome takes a personal approach to its clinical study names, naming them in honor of employees’ loved ones who battled cancer–those who inspire us to achieve our mission for everyone's loved ones.
Learn the moving story behind The Vallania Study:
https://t.co/JkPhB4uDcG

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@henrythe9ths FUNDRAISE looking forward to reading this!

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.

After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach.

Were we solving the right problem?

What were we doing wrong?

Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?

Were we the right team to build this?

We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem.

Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round.

That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.

We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors.

We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage.

Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper.

And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.

And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.

So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then:

Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process

(because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder).

So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.

Here's what you are getting:

• The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C)

• 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI

• A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually)

• An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)

Want access?

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P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

[Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 @DanielLurie]

Market Street overflowed with joy today as we came together to close out Pride Month. San Francisco proudly celebrated the LGBTQ+ community and showed the world the values we stand for.

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@segal_eran Thoughts and prayers that you are all safe 🙏🏻

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@DanielLurie Thank you from a resident!!! That sentiment you expressed is exactly correct and everyone wins in the end!

[UK Biobank @uk_biobank]

Today we’re launching the world’s most comprehensive study of proteins circulating in our bodies, which will transform research into new medical tests, drugs and treatments.

Discover more: https://t.co/o8t2yuknLv

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

Arithmetic is a superpower. It can help you answer questions about biology, and molecules unseen by the naked eye, without running any experiments.

I'm starting a new blog series to teach biological numeracy. I'll ask questions and then walk through the steps to solve them. 🔻

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@Benioff As an investment, training scientists, especially life scientists, is a very expensive endeavor. Tuition alone, benefits, and salary for grad school across all years was already in the 6 figures. So it makes sense to benefit from this effort 👌

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@Benioff Yes! As a recipient of an American Ph.D. this would have significantly reduced my stress. While grateful for OPT (the next step that gives you a work permit after an F-1 Visa) the admin process almost ran out of time and risked me being expelled 😱

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@Yuchenj_UW Sorry man😞 this is absurd 🤦‍♂️ on so many levels. Hopefully new changes will rectify this stupid oversight

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

Congratulations @HowardYChang ! That is going to be amazing for everyone involved!!!

[Jay Bradner, M.D. @jaybradner]

Excited to welcome @HowardYChang to @Amgen as our new SVP for Research & CSO! A pioneering physician-scientist, Howard’s expertise in genetics, oncology, & inflammation will help us push the boundaries of discovery. We’re excited to embark on this journey together to redefine the future of science and medicine!

https://t.co/ajQ4tFP8U0

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Here's our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election:

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

GrowSF is one of the main voting guides that help dissect the importance of each local proposition and candidate! Also, by comparing others you can integrate multiple analyses and look at consistency/disagreements. Local elections matter a lot!!! #GOVOTE2024

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Voting season is upon us! For those living in SF / Bay Area, each time I recommend the @GrowSF voting guide as a great starting point for the local elections - it is long, detailed, educational, and sensible. O(~hundreds) of votes matter on local elections
https://t.co/y21aqXnQ5f

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

Oh this is wonderful!!! Congrats @loloyem!!! I remember discussing this with you over dinner ~1yr ago and it was fascinating!!!

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

Congratulations @demishassabis ! I have been a fan of your work since the Bullfrog days!!!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins.

In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic.

Read more about their story: https://t.co/nWxcZs6wqC

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Massive congratulations to my good friend and former Google colleague @geoffreyhinton on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics (with John Hopfield)! Incredibly well deserved, Geoff laid the foundations for the deep learning revolution that underpins the modern AI field.

[Atul Butte (In Memoriam) @atulbutte]

Congratulations to @UCSF_BCHSI @UCSF_DOCIT faculty members @MSirota84 and @UrmimalaSarkar on being elected as new fellows into the American College of Medical Informatics! Learn more about this prestigious distinction and the 25 elected fellows: https://t.co/RBcUGTodS6

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@VirusesImmunity @marieclaire @YaleCII @YaleMed Congratulations!

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

@purveshkhatri @sorindr @atulbutte Congrats Purvesh!

[Francesco Vallania 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @drFvallania]

That’s a perfect experiment to measure the impact of hormones over chromosomal makeup🧬 in sex differences. We were discussing about this with colleagues many years ago and it’s great to see your results @BrodinPetter !

[Petter Brodin @BrodinPetter]

New paper out @Nature - why are males more vulnerable to severe infections (ex acute #COVID), while females suffer more from autoimmunity (SLE, MS etc and also #LongCovid)? sex chromosomes or hormones?

Here we studied adaptation of human immune systems to gender-affirming testosterone treatment in trans-men assigned female sex at birth: https://t.co/HzCQI6GUwn