My guest today is Amanda Cashin, the Co-Founder and Global Head of Illumina Accelerator, which focuses on building genomics-driven startups. We talk about:
- Accelerator program, sequencing support, seed funding, training and the selection process.
- Partnering with leading angel and venture capital investors to help the startups
- Latest partnership with Sequoia Capital to support an incubator in China.
- Role of storytelling
- Future vision and how next generation sequencing is going to advance healthcare.
- Upcoming application deadline to the accelerator due October 1, 2021
- Application form: https://miseqmyfocus.wufoo.com/forms/qgby2411drpybc/
