Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup

Tech investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is teaming up with cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee on an artificial-intelligence drug discovery startup that is launching with $24.6 million of initial funding.

The company, named Manas AI, will first focus on breast cancer, prostate cancer and lymphoma before broadening its scope to include other illnesses.