UK - based start - up Healx , founded by the co - inventor of Viagra , Dr David Brown , has raised $ 10 m in a series A funding round led by Balderton Capital . Healx has developed a platform called HealNet , containing one billion unique data , which uses machine learning to identify specific new drugs that can be tweaked to treat rare diseases . Brown describes the current drug discovery process as " broken , slow and high risk " .
UK-based start-up Healx, founded by the co-inventor of Viagra, Dr David Brown, has raised $10m in a series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. Healx has developed a platform called HealNet, containing one billion unique data points which uses machine learning to identify specific existing drugs that can be tweaked to treat rare diseases. Brown dubbed the current drug discovery process as "broken, slow and high failure".