
We turned a Slackbot into an $11M Series A in synthetic biology
Onyx started as a weekend Slackbot that helped postdocs schedule lab equipment. Three years and a $11M Series A later, the bot is still in production.
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Onyx started as a weekend Slackbot that helped postdocs schedule lab equipment. Three years and a $11M Series A later, the bot is still in production.
The offer would have made every founder a millionaire. We said no on a phone call in a parking lot. Here's the messy two years that followed.
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