Rosana Kapeller listening to a member on the breakfast panel at #BIO19 discuss AI in R&D in Philadelphia (Jeff Rumans for Endpoints News)

Nim­bus founder Rosana Kapeller has a new com­pa­ny, with $50M and an eye on the ‘re­peatome’

Rosana Kapeller left Nim­bus two years ago de­ter­mined, af­ter 2 decades and 3 com­pa­nies, that her next spot would be as CEO. To­day, af­ter a 7-month sab­bat­i­cal and a stint at a top VC firm, the joc­u­lar com­pu­ta­tion­al bi­ol­o­gy pi­o­neer is back. And with full con­trol.

“I re­al­ly want­ed to… make a unique or­ga­ni­za­tion, a unique cul­ture,” Kapeller told End­points News. I want­ed that chal­lenge.”

And a chal­lenge it will be, both sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly and be­cause, well, there’s a pan­dem­ic keep­ing much of her 10-per­son team work­ing from her home. “This is a hard time to start a com­pa­ny,” she ac­knowl­edged.

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