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 . Brown, Healx's chief scientific officer, founded Healx in 2014 with Cambridge University professor Dr Andreas Bender and Dr Tim Guilliams, who completed a PhD at Cambridge in biophysical neuroscience before becoming an entrepreneur. 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 $ 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 " .