thiel headquarters 1 letterman drive san francisco ca parent thiel foundation website breakoutlabs.org breakout labs is a grant making body operating as part of the thiel foundation a philanthropic organization created by peter thiel . breakout labs gives grants for early stage scientific research that is too speculative or long term to interest the for profit sector such as angel investors and venture capitalists but may be unsuitable for traditional sources of funding for scientific research due to its radical or offbeat nature . 1 grants are made through a competitive application and selection process . 2 contents 1 recipients 1.1 2012 recipients 1.2 2013 recipients 1.3 2014 recipients 2 goals 2.1 shifting the focus to innovation 3 media coverage 4 references 5 external links recipients edit breakout labs announced its first batch of grantees on april 17 2012 3 its second batch of grantees on august 15 2012 4 and its third batch of grantees in april 2013 . 5 the full list of grantees is on the breakout labs website . 6 2012 recipients edit the first group of grants were given out in 2012 . the recipients were 3scan arigos biomedical 7 bell biosystems is making magnetic organelles that can be used to non invasively visualize and control cells in the body . immusoft is developing a gene therapy that turns patients cells into drug factories . inspirotec longevity biotech modern meadow is developing ways to make animal products such as leather and meat without the need to kill animals . positron dynamics is developing the technology to produce cold antimatter for use in spacecraft engines 2013 recipients edit entopsis pareto biotechnologies 2014 recipients edit cortexyme is developing therapeutics to treat alzheimer s and other neurodegenerative disorders . epibone is creating a stem cell based treatment that allows patients to grow their own bone . e3xbio g tech is developing diagnostic for gi disorders based on myoelectric data from the digestive organs . goals edit shifting the focus to innovation edit peter thiel has proposed a dichotomy between intensive growth which involves the creation of radical new technology . he likens this to going from zero to one . extensive growth which involves spreading existing technology to more people and making it faster cheaper and better . globalization is an example of extensive growth . thiel likens extensive growth to going from 1 to n. thiel believes that too many people in business and philanthropy are focused on extensive growth and there is too little focus on intensive growth . thiel thus concentrates most of his philanthropic efforts on efforts that he considers likely to lead to intensive growth i.e. radical innovation . 8 9 breakout labs is part of these efforts . many of these themes are also covered in his similarly titled book zero to one . media coverage edit the announcement of breakout labs october 2011 as well as the announcements of its first batch of grantees april 2012 received considerable media attention . 10 the first and second batches of grantees were covered by techcrunch . 11 12 breakout labs was also covered in nature magazine 13 and scientific american . 14 references edit about us page on breakout labs . faqs page on breakout labs . breakout labs announces first grantees . breakout labs . 2012 04 17 . thiel foundation s breakout labs announces newest grants at the intersection of biology and advanced technologies . breakout labs . 2012 08 15 . cutler kim mai 2013 04 17 . peter thiel s breakout labs funds nanostraws and a siri like natural language processing startup . techcrunch . retrieved 2013 04 17 . recipients page on breakout labs website . inside the immortality business arigos is one of the projects backed by peter thiel s breakout labs peter thiel on intensive versus extensive growth peter thiel s closing remarks at the breakthrough philanthropy conference news page on breakout labs website . tsotsis alexia 2012 04 17 . peter thiel s breakout labs awards 350k each to six ambitious biotech startups . techcrunch . cutler kim mai 2012 08 15 . breakout labs grantees . techcrunch . paypal co founder s breakout labs issues first grants . breakout labs a new model for funding science and technology . external links edit breakout labs website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title breakout labs & oldid 696117213 categories grants money navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 december 2015 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