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1. e11 bio · convergent-research-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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     "detail": "connectomics, alameda — andrew payne and todd huffman's brain-mapping fro, the boyden-lab project that was 'the original inspiration' for the model. prism shipped october 2025 (>750x label diversity, 8x tracing accuracy, cc-by-nc); the claim is a mouse connectome in five years for ~$100m. establishment year self-reports inconsistently — announced october 2021, 'launched in 2022' per e11.bio.",
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2. cultivarium · convergent-research-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2021–",
     "detail": "the laboratory for extraordinary microbes, watertown — henry lee and nili ostrov's fro for non-model organisms. 106 of 14,000+ atcc organisms have ever been studied; cultivarium built the organism portal, a custom electroporator, and genome-based growth prediction, plus an atcc×igem collaboration.",
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3. parallel squared technology institute · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023–",
     "detail": "the parallel squared technology institute, watertown — nikolai slavov and harrison specht's proteomics fro, funded out of the schmidt/griffin $50m. plexdia claims ~30x parallelization in mass-spec proteomics.",
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     "title": "parallel squared technology institute",
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4. eve bio · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023–",
     "detail": "pharmome mapping, durham nc — eve bio's systematic screen of every drug against every human protein. first public data release: 19 nuclear receptors × 1,397 compounds, cc by-nc-sa, hugging face write-up. fred houskeeper is ceo.",
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5. forest neurotech · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023–",
     "detail": "whole-brain ultrasound bci — sumner norman and taylor aflalo's fro, incubated at the astera institute before joining convergent. a five-year, $20m co-development deal with butterfly network (october 2023) built the forest 1 device, in an nhs trial by january 2025.",
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     "title": "forest neurotech",
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6. [c]worthy · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023–",
     "detail": "ocean carbon-dioxide-removal quantification, boulder — matt long and alicia karspeck's mrv fro; the oae efficiency map with carbonplan shipped october 2024. its funders include noaa and arpa-e — the first us-government money in the fro portfolio.",
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7. lean fro · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023–",
     "detail": "the lean proof assistant's upkeep — leonardo de moura and sebastian ullrich's fro, funded by simons foundation international, sloan, richard merkin, and founders pledge, later joined by alex gerko's $5m direct gift. deepmind's imo-silver system ran on lean — the portfolio's most quotable downstream use.",
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8. imprint · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023–",
     "detail": "'forensic immunology,' new york — beck brachman and nicholas greiff's fro decoding immune memory for chronic-disease research. publicly launched may 2025 with $15m from the schmidts, nycedc, peter reinhardt, and others.",
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     "title": "imprint",
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9. chi-fro · convergent-research-quests · 2023–2025 (approximate)

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     "detail": "probabilistic computing — machine-executable models of mind, vikash mansinghka and josh tenenbaum. at convergent 2023–2025, then transitioned to the probabilistic computing foundation in february 2026 — the first non-death outcome in the fro line. governance and equity mechanics undisclosed.",
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10. dragonfly · convergent-research-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "astrophysics, chile — roberto abraham and pieter van dokkum's mothra array, 1,140 eyes on the cosmic web, funded by alex gerko/xtx. yale news covered it march 2026; the nature paper (~june 2026, reported) and a science bow-shock feature followed.",
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11. meridial · convergent-research-quests · 2026– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026–",
      "detail": "living-brain connectivity microscopy, london — kathleen fisek's fro, launched april 2026 with a £14m initial aria award. the first of the uk cohort out of the founder residency.",
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12. echo labs · convergent-research-quests · 2026– (approximate)

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      "detail": "ecological intelligence, london — the second uk fro, launched alongside meridial; wasik, blank, and tindall. the aria frost-uk proof that the residency model converts.",
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13. melody · convergent-research-quests · 2026– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026–",
      "detail": "open bioelectronics for continuous molecular monitoring, pasadena — anand muthusamy's fro, incubated at convergent and publicly launched september 7, 2026 via a founder-authored roadmap post. not yet on the ecosystem page.",
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14. the gap map · convergent-research-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "gap-map.org — the 'fundamental development gap map,' a public database of the bottlenecks the thesis names, launched april 2025. the fro-shaped problem made enumerable.",
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15. essential technology · convergent-research-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "the essential technology blog — launched february 2025 with marblestone's 'how to build essential technology.' carries the gap map launch, the residency dispatches, gamick's keynote, and the nsf rfi responses: the incubator's own press organ.",
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16. the founder residency · convergent-research-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "the uk fro founder residency with aria — roughly ninety to a hundred applications, five teams, six months — that produced meridial and echo labs. institutional manufacturing run as a cohort, not a pipeline.",
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      "title": "the founder residency",
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17. the metascience alliance · convergent-research-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "convergent joined the metascience alliance at its july 2025 launch in london — 830 participants from ~65 countries, gamick's day-3 keynote. the field-building arm.",
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18. the pre-convergent orbit · convergent-research-quests · pre-2021 (approximate)

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      "dates": "pre-2021",
      "detail": "marblestone's orbit before the incubator: helped start biobright; chief strategy officer at kernel; research scientist at google deepmind and in boyden's mit lab; fas fellow; schmidt futures innovation fellow; consulting research director for longevity at astera; boards at norn group, new science, and speculative technologies; the longitudinal science blog runs alongside.",
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19. renaissance philanthropy · convergent-research-quests · 2024– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2024–",
      "detail": "kalil's post-schmidt vehicle — renaissance philanthropy, launched may 2024 with kumar garg and a founding donation from eric and wendy schmidt. runs the 'big if true science' accelerator (which incubates its own fros), mid-scale-science playbooks, and the $18m xtx ai for math fund. a sibling, not a parent.",
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      "title": "renaissance philanthropy",
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20. futurehouse · convergent-research-quests · 2023– (approximate)

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      "detail": "rodriques' own shop — futurehouse, co-founded 2023, a private lab for ai-for-science that sits outside the canonical fro line; his cell commentary the same year catalogued fro-like organizations.",
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21. the fro board seats · convergent-research-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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      "detail": "gamick's second job — she sits on the boards of forest neurotech, eve bio, cultivarium, dragonfly, and [c]worthy, plus the unitary fund. the governance half of 'mission control': convergent holds board seats in the orgs it hatches.",
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22. rejuvenome (astera × buck) · convergent-research-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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      "detail": "the astera institute's rejuvenome — a $70m, ~seven-year multi-omics aging-intervention mouse study with the buck institute, announced october 13, 2021. astera calls it 'the first fro' it funded — the third fro of the launch wave and the proof the model travels outside convergent. outcomes still pending.",
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23. parpa → speculative technologies · convergent-research-quests · 2022– (approximate)

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      "detail": "ben reinhardt's parpa — the 'private arpa' program-manager model — became speculative technologies in 2023. not fros but the same scene: the complementary template the discourse pairs convergent against, with marblestone on its board and an aria collaboration of its own.",
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24. bind research · convergent-research-quests · 2024– (approximate)

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      "detail": "bind research — the independent uk fro for disordered proteins, competitively funded through the uk's research ventures catalyst. the fro line that never passed through convergent.",
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25. nsf tech labs · convergent-research-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "detail": "nsf tip's tech labs pilot — up to $1b for fro-style independent labs, the model's federal adoption. convergent answered the rfi and offered to be the implementation partner; whether the nonprofit/public-goods/sunset features survive federalization is the open question.",
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26. ifp's x-labs · convergent-research-quests · 2025 (year)

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      "detail": "the institute for progress's x-labs proposal — caleb watney's x02 execution awards (≈ fros) and x03 block grants (≈ incubators like convergent). the mission-control pattern generalized into policy language.",
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