Flagship Pioneering, the Cambridge

旗舰先锋公司，位于剑桥

venture firm

风险投资公司

known for creating Moderna

因创立莫德纳而闻名

MRNA

信使核糖核酸

, last Thursday

，上个星期四

unveiled

揭开

a new startup called

一家名为

Extuitive

直观的

with $20 million in seed funding.

拥有2000万美元的种子资金。

The company said the platform is designed to equip small businesses with artificial intelligence tools that simulate consumer behavior, a capability historically used by large corporations.

公司表示，该平台旨在为小型企业提供模拟消费者行为的人工智能工具，这种能力历来被大公司所使用。

The startup launch represents a change for the 26-year-old firm that built its reputation by fostering life sciences companies worth billions. The launch comes amid a downturn in

这家初创公司的上市代表了这家拥有26年历史的公司发生了变化，该公司通过培育价值数十亿美元的生命科学公司建立了声誉。此次上市正值行业低迷时期。

biotech

生物技术

venture funding, with BioPharma Dive

风险投资，与BioPharma Dive相关

reporting

报告

that financing for the sector fell sharply in the first half of 2025 as investors look to new areas of growth.

2025 年上半年，随着投资者寻找新的增长领域，该行业的融资大幅下降。

Don't Miss:

不要错过：

Kevin O'Leary Loves ‘Wonderful Recurring Cash Flows' —

凯文·奥利里喜爱“美妙的经常性现金流入”——

These Small Industrial Assets Deliver Just That

这些小型工业资产正好满足了这一点。

If there was a new fund backed by Jeff Bezos offering a

如果有杰夫·贝索斯支持的新基金提供一个

7-9% target yield with monthly dividends would you invest in it

7-9%的目标收益率，每月分红，你会投资吗？

?

？

AI Platform Simulates 100,000 Real Consumers in Seconds to Validate Products

AI平台在数秒内模拟10万名真实消费者以验证产品

Extuitive combines generative AI with evolutionary algorithms to create virtual consumers based on purchasing data from 100,000 real shoppers. These AI consumers can test thousands of product concepts and marketing campaigns in minutes, delivering insights that traditionally required months and millions of dollars to obtain, according to the company.

Extuitive 将生成式人工智能与进化算法相结合，根据来自 10 万名真实购物者的购买数据创建虚拟消费者。该公司表示，这些人工智能消费者可以在几分钟内测试数千种产品概念和营销活动，提供传统方法需要数月时间和数百万美元才能获得的洞察。

website

网站

.

。

“With Extuitive, we’ve created a platform that simulates real human preferences with remarkable precision, allowing entrepreneurs to generate, refine, compare, and validate products and targeted creative content with accuracy and speed,” Extuitive co-founder and CEO

“通过Extuitive，我们创建了一个能够以惊人精度模拟真实人类偏好的平台，使企业家能够准确而迅速地生成、优化、比较和验证产品及针对性创意内容，”Extuitive联合创始人兼首席执行官表示。

Armen Mkrtchyan

阿尔缅·姆克尔强

said in the statement.

声明中说。

The platform addresses a critical market gap affecting 40% of the U.S. gross domestic product. Small businesses have been locked out of sophisticated research tools that help major corporations develop hit products, according to Flagship Pioneering.

该平台解决了一个影响美国40%国内生产总值的关键市场缺口。根据Flagship Pioneering的说法，小型企业一直无法使用帮助大型企业开发热门产品的复杂研究工具。

Mkrtchyan, who

姆克尔强，他

joined

加入

Flagship Pioneering after studying at MIT and building autonomous drone technology for farmers, believes his platform could enable billion-dollar companies run by single entrepreneurs.

旗舰先锋公司在麻省理工学院学习并为农民开发自主无人机技术后，认为他的平台可以实现由单一企业家经营的十亿美元公司。

Trending: An EA Co-Founder Shapes This VC Backed Marketplace—

趋势：一位EA联合创始人打造了这个VC支持的市场——

Now You Can Invest in Gaming's Next Big Platform

现在你可以投资于游戏行业的下一个大平台了

Noubar Afeyan’s Flagship Bets Big on Intelligence Revolution Beyond Healthcare

努巴尔·阿费扬的旗舰公司在医疗保健领域之外的情报革命上押下重注

The venture represents the latest evolution of Flagship’s “polyintelligent design”

该风险投资代表了旗舰公司“多智能设计”的最新演变。

philosophy

哲学

, which combines human creativity with machine intelligence and nature’s adaptive systems. Flagship’s founder and CEO

，它将人类的创造力与机器智能和自然的适应性系统相结合。旗舰创始人兼首席执行官

Noubar Afeyan

努巴尔·阿费扬

sees Extuitive as part of a broader transformation in breakthrough innovation.

将Extuitive视为突破性创新的更广泛转型的一部分。

“At Flagship, we believe the most profound breakthroughs come from challenging assumptions and expanding the frontiers of possibility, whether in biology, sustainability, or now, intelligence itself,” Afeyan, Extuitive’s co-founder and chair, said in the statement. “As AI increasingly becomes an engine of discovery and design, we see a unique opportunity to transform entire industries, starting with how consumer products and targeted creative content are imagined, tested, and brought to market.”.

“在旗舰公司，我们相信最深刻的突破来自于挑战假设和拓展可能性的边界，无论是在生物学、可持续性，还是现在智能本身，” Afeyan，Extuitive的联合创始人兼主席在声明中说道。“随着人工智能日益成为发现和设计的引擎，我们看到了一个独特的机会来变革整个行业，首先是从消费品和定向创意内容的构想、测试到推向市场的方式开始。”

“By applying advanced AI to democratize product innovation and marketing, Extuitive is enabling a new class of entrepreneurs to create and amplify with the speed, insight, and sophistication once limited to the world’s largest companies,” Afeyan said.

阿菲扬说：“通过应用先进的人工智能来普及产品创新和营销，Extuitive正在使一类新的企业家能够以曾经仅限于全球最大公司的速度、洞察力和复杂性进行创造和放大。”

See Also: Backed by $300M+ in Assets and Microsoft's Climate Fund,

另见：拥有超过 3 亿美元的资产和微软气候基金的支持，

Farmland LP

农田有限合伙公司

Opens Vital Farmland III to Accredited Investors

向合格投资者开放重要农田III

Flagship Pioneering's $14 Billion Portfolio, Nielsen Executives, and Affinnova Legacy Drive Extuitive's AI Ambitions

旗舰先锋140亿美元的投资组合、尼尔森高管团队以及Affinnova的传承推动Extuitive的AI雄心

Extuitive builds on the legacy of Affinnova, a Flagship-founded pioneer in algorithmic design that Nielsen Holdings

Extuitive 建立在 Affinnova 的传承之上，Affinnova 是由 Flagship 创立的算法设计领域的先驱，隶属于 Nielsen Holdings。

NLSN

尼尔森

acquired in 2014 for its consumer-driven product optimization technology,  according to Flagship Pioneering.

根据旗舰先锋公司（Flagship Pioneering）的介绍，该公司于2014年因其以消费者为导向的产品优化技术被收购。

The startup’s leadership team includes

创业公司的领导团队包括

Sunand Menon

苏南德·梅农

as president and

作为总统和

Chong Guo

郭崇

as chief science officer, with a board featuring Flagship Pioneering Senior Partner

作为首席科学官，董事会成员包括旗舰先锋高级合伙人

Jim Gilbert

吉姆·吉尔伯特

and Nielsen Executive Chair

和尼尔森执行主席

David Kenny

大卫·肯尼

.

。

Flagship Pioneering says it has $14 billion in assets under management and originated more than 100 scientific ventures since 2000. The current ecosystem includes over 40 companies spanning healthcare, agriculture, and consumer technology.

旗舰先锋公司表示，其管理的资产达140亿美元，自2000年以来已发起100多项科学创业项目。目前的生态系统包括横跨医疗保健、农业和消费技术领域的40多家公司。

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接下来阅读：心电图在100年里没有改变——

This AI Upgrade Could Help Detect Heart Disease Years Earlier

这种人工智能升级可能有助于提前数年检测心脏病

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