🧭 Bio Founder GPS: AI Company Investor Question Bank

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What this is:

A data-bank of questions investors are likely to ask, organized by your archetype. Use them to pressure-test your positioning before your next investor meeting.

Synthetic Biology + AI

1. Are you building a platform or an asset company? And how does that shape your path to value creation?
2. What's your moat? Is it proprietary data, validated outputs, wet lab capabilities, or something else? And how does that moat deepen over time?
3. How do you think about defensibility against the big tech players (DeepMind, Meta, NVIDIA) who are releasing state-of-the-art foundation models for free?
4. What's your IP strategy? And how have you structured inventorship for AI-generated outputs?
5. How do you balance computational capabilities with wet lab validation? Are you building both, or partnering for one side?
6. What does your team look like at the intersection of AI/ML and biology? And how do you attract talent in a competitive market?
7. Who are your first customers or partners, and what does your commercial path look like? Is it licensing, co-development, internal programs, or something else?
8. How capital-intensive is your model, and what milestones are you targeting with this raise?
9. What's your competitive landscape? How do you differentiate?
10. If AI capabilities become commoditized in three years, what's left that's uniquely yours?