Ranica Arrowsmith, Associate Editor09.11.14
Calico, shorthand for California Life Company, doing business as California Life Sciences LLC, is a Mountain View, Calif.-based biotechnology company that is barely a year old. The company focuses on aging and associated diseases, although it hasn’t released any products yet. It bills itself as a “research and development company whose mission is to harvest advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.” The vision statement goes on to say the company will make an “unprecedented level of interdisciplinary effort” for which “funding is already in place.”
Well, of course funding is already in place. Did I mention Calico is a Google company?
That’s right. In September last year, Google announced the foundation of Calico, its new venture into the medical technology space. Founding investor Arthur D. Levinson, chairman and former CEO of Genentech and chairman of Apple, was named CEO.
In announcing the new investment, Google CEO Larry Page said, “Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinki
Well, of course funding is already in place. Did I mention Calico is a Google company?
That’s right. In September last year, Google announced the foundation of Calico, its new venture into the medical technology space. Founding investor Arthur D. Levinson, chairman and former CEO of Genentech and chairman of Apple, was named CEO.
In announcing the new investment, Google CEO Larry Page said, “Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinki
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