Amine Raji
Co-Founder & CEO of Spore.Bio
14 Jan 2026Eleven Labs $300M ARR, Claude Cowork, Google’s Apple, HartmanAI $200M
Spore.Bio Founder Live: 10-Minute Bacteria Detection & Google.org Backing
A Paris-based biotech founder joins live (calling from San Francisco at 5am during JPM Healthcare) to celebrate Spore.Bio being the only startup among ten projects selected by Google.org's AI-for-science initiative, bringing philanthropic funding, DeepMind collaboration on antimicrobial resistance, free compute, a new AI-native lab in Paris, and a planned New York office. He explains their technology detects, quantifies, and identifies bacteria in 10 minutes instead of the 5-14 days required by petri dishes, shares the founding story of a massive recall at his previous company and meeting his microbiology researcher co-founder, and describes the roughly $10M-per-recall pain, 480,000 annual contamination deaths, strong inbound demand from Fortune 500 manufacturers, and following pharma manufacturing to the US amid Trump-era reshoring.