EC Demo Day 2025 is now live! ✨ Every year, Emerson Collective’s Demo Day brings together creators and builders whose ideas illuminate new pathways to progress. From AI and healthcare to education and energy, these entrepreneurs are reimagining what’s next, and showing how bold ideas become real solutions. Watch the full program at ecdemoday.com. #ECDemoDay Teach For All Wendy Kopp Antora Energy Andrew Ponec Teal Health Kara Egan Tumo Center for Creative Technologies Marie Lou Papazian Mississippi Today Mary Margaret Miller White DJ Johnson Vaulted Deep Julia Reichelstein FieldAI Ali Agha The Juilliard School The Atlantic Anne Applebaum
Emerson Collective
Civic and Social Organizations
Palo Alto, California 47,445 followers
Emerson Collective is a company that invests in entrepreneurs & innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility.
About us
Emerson Collective is a company that invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility, working to create a world of abundance for future generations. Complex challenges in education and economic mobility, immigration and the environment require audacious ideas, rigorous thinking and hard work. At EC, we are proud to partner with those taking big swings – with humility and hustle.
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http://www.emersoncollective.com
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- Civic and Social Organizations
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- 201-500 employees
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- Palo Alto, California
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- Privately Held
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- Philanthropy, Economic Mobility, Environment, Education, Venture, and Immigration
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Today, we’re releasing new data showing that Chai-2 can design antibodies against challenging targets with atomic precision. In June, we introduced Chai-2, showing it could design antibodies zero-shot in a 24-well plate. In this new data, we show that Chai-2 can: 💡Design full-length mAbs, with >86% of designs showing developability characteristics on par with approved therapeutics, while maintaining the high hit rates we previously reported. 🔬Achieve atomic-level precision on epitope targeting, with Cryo-EM structures matching model designs across five antibody-antigen complexes 🏁 Generate binders and functional agonists against a panel of six GPCRs, which are notoriously hard-to-drug targets. Testing just <75 designs for each, we obtain a binder in every case (median hit rate: 21%). We discover functional agonists to two distinct GPCR targets. 🔎 Design antibodies for peptide-MHC that discriminate single-residue mutations, including binders specific to KRAS G12V over G12D and wild-type peptides These results provide a glimpse into a new paradigm, where drug designs are conceived on the computer and predictive models approach the precision of the wet lab. Thank you to many partners for making this possible: Oracle, Mithril, Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA, Modal for compute; Sino Biological, GenScript for conducting many wet-lab experiments in the paper.
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The countdown is officially on! ⏱️ Ten visionary builders will take the stage, showing how creativity, courage, and action can remake the world around us. Watch #ECDemoDay 2025 on Friday, November 21 at emersoncollective.com.
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EC interns do real work that matters in areas like policy, communications, venture, and philanthropy. 💡 From researching emerging policy initiatives and exploring how technology and AI can advance opportunity, to helping design education programs or building tools for nonprofits to grow their impact, EC interns dig in alongside teams working across the country. Internships are available at Emerson Collective and our partners E Pluribus Unum in New Orleans, Chicago CRED, and XQ Institute in Oakland. Apply before January 9, 2026 at emersoncollective.com.
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Bookstores are more than places to buy books—they’re spaces for connection, discovery, and belonging. At The Texas Tribune Festival this weekend, three Emerson Collective partners—Whose Books, Black Pearl Books, and First Light Books—shared how they’re redefining what a bookstore can be: 1. Listen first: start small and grow by listening to community needs. 2. Design with intention: whether a former house or post office, the design of each space makes people feel welcome. 3. Lower the barrier to reading: they ask visitors what they’re into, turning casual conversations into invitations to read.
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Join three EC partner bookstores—Whose Books, Black Pearl Books, and First Light Books—this weekend at the annual Texas Tribune Festival! 📚 They’ll discuss opportunities within their hybrid non-profit and for-profit bookstore models, and how these approaches are helping strengthen their communities. If you’re in Austin, attend the free conversation in the Texas Monthly Tent on Congress on Saturday at 11am CT: https://lnkd.in/euAXWTEY
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25 years of innovation with one guiding rule: listen to teachers. 📏🍎 Amplify is the 25-year startup rewriting the edtech playbook—building tools that put educators first. By staying true to teachers’ needs, Amplify continues to innovate alongside the evolving classroom. Read more about their journey in Positive Sum No. 3, an Emerson Collective publication: https://lnkd.in/eX45UzNP
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⚡️ Energy doesn’t always flow when it’s needed most. Antora Energy is changing that—storing energy as heat in carbon blocks. When power is cheap, Antora soaks it up. Storing that energy for days on end, they deliver it around-the-clock to keep manufacturing running 24/7. This is what American innovation looks like. 👏 See more in Positive Sum No. 3, an Emerson Collective publication: https://lnkd.in/eVhY8tux
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What if we could make cancer non-lethal in our lifetime? That’s the mission driving Yosemite, an oncology-focused venture fund investing in the next generation of biotech and healthcare innovations. From at-home cervical cancer screening to breakthroughs in gene editing, Yosemite partners with companies moving science forward with precision and purpose. Meet the innovators leading this work in EC's Positive Sum No. 3. https://lnkd.in/eR4wm77n
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Builders move the world forward. 💡🌎 That’s the spirit behind Positive Sum, an Emerson Collective publication celebrating entrepreneurs and innovators taking transformative leaps across energy, AI, education, and healthcare. Each story in this new issue reflects what drives our team: a belief that solving society’s hardest challenges requires investing in founders whose work scales both impact and possibility. This is Positive Sum No 3—a celebration of big swings and the people taking them: https://lnkd.in/e8M-knsv