GV invests in medical machine learning startup Owkin

Owkin, a medical research machine learning startup, has announced a new investor in the form of GV (formerly Google Ventures), which has now joined as a late entrant to Owkin's series A round. Founded in 2016, Owkin's platform leverages deep learning algorithms to help clinical researchers across academia, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industries develop predictive models and expedite drug development throughout the whole process. The platform, dubbed Socrates, integrates genomics, clinical data, and biomedical images to identify characteristics, or "biomarkers," associated with diseases. "There is a constant race happening between the data at hand and the knowledge we gain from it," noted Owkin CEO and cofounder Thomas Clozel. "At Owkin, our goal is to augment doctors' and researchers' capabilities in transforming data into knowledge and prediction, and achieve breakthrough medical moments such as the discovery of a new biomarker or target that could transform how patients are treated."