Hannah Payette Peterson

Managing Director of Nucleate

@HannahPayetteP

1 episode · 1 moment · last on 4 Feb 2026

4 Feb 2026Moltbook🦞, SpaceX Buys xAI, Forbes 30u30, Granola Rebrand

2:02:3720 min

Hannah (Unite & Nucleate Berlin): Bio x AI Hackathon

Hannah introduces Unite, a newly funded startup factory for Berlin and Brandenburg, and her path from Boston biology research through life science VC to co-MD of Nucleate Berlin. She details the Bio x AI hackathon on February 27–28 run with Project Europe — challenge tracks in protein design with Adaptyv, genomic synthesis with Serova Bio, and agentic AI with Google DeepMind — with applications open until February 9 at biohack.berlin. She also explains why Europe lags at translating research into companies, compares the ecosystem to Boston's, and argues Berlin's contrarian, international culture gives it a very high ceiling as a startup hub.