Innovation Endeavors debuts Deep Life, an incubator focused on the intersection of life science and computer science – TechCrunch

Innovation Endeavors, the fund backed by Google's Eric Schmidt, has for years now been taking a novel approach to working on difficult and still-evolving problems, like cybersecurity and food shortages: it sets up incubators that bring together different stakeholders to identify, develop and fund ways of tackling these issues. Today, Innovation unveiled the latest of these: a new project called Deep Life, which aims to identify tricky problems in the world of life sciences, and figure out how to use computer science -- specifically innovations in areas like machine learning -- to help fix them. Target areas will include therapeutics, diagnostics and industrial life sciences in biology, chemistry and other fields; and Deep Life will provide startups with "investment capital across all stages of growth; access to experts, including scientists and decision-makers; proprietary data sets; early feedback on product; identification of market needs; initial customers and potential partners. In exchange for their startup support, Deep Life member organizations gain access to emerging technologies and hard-to-find talent," according to a blog post introducing the new project penned by Innovation Endeavors' co-founder Dror Berman. Deep Life will unveil the first fruits of its efforts during a pitch day on May 30, and it's accepting applications for places as of right now.