TAP

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Deep Tech Holding company powered by distributed innovation

Transforming how the world collaborates on originating, assessing, and advancing critical science, technology, and infrastructure

A Focal Point for Collaboration

TAP is an AI-native company with High Performance Compute (HPC) capabilities. We form, orchestrate, and connect distributed innovation systems with a focus on compounding knowledge, spanning life sciences, materials science, healthcare, quantum, operations, and finance. These collaborations operate across structures, organizations, disciplines, geographies, and datasets through partnerships that bring critical innovation to market faster and more efficiently.

Technical Overview

AI-Native Architecture

Our system is built from the ground up as AI-native, orchestrating intelligent networks across deep tech domains. With state-of-the-art architectures for pattern recognition, optimization, and multi-modal learning across physical, digital, and computational spaces, this introduces breakthrough opportunities through mitigating non-scientific barriers to innovation, especially coordination problems.

Meta-Learning System

Each collaboration teaches the network how to form better connections, transforming deep technology development into a continuously improving, distributed intelligence. The system doesn't just learn about specific technologies—it learns how to optimize the innovation process itself across domains.

Empirical Loop

Every result across deep tech domains feeds back into AI models, creating a continuous learning loop that improves predictive accuracy across the entire network. Through rapid empirical validation of computational predictions, results immediately inform model refinement and next-round predictions. This iterative refinement creates compounding system intelligence while providing embedded risk management, with orchestration capturing and pushing feedback to other nodes, improving learning with each cycle and resulting in greater scope for value creation.

Discovery Flow

Portfolio Strategy

We operate dynamic portfolios across multiple deep tech domains, continuously optimizing through our purge-pause-promote framework. Our portfolio decisions are data enabled, using this framework to end candidates that underperform, pause promising candidates unready at time of evaluation, and prioritize candidates with future facing resilience. Paused candidates can be revisited as conditions evolve. The aim is to eliminate and pause early, preferably pre-formation, creating more scope for breakthroughs at the portfolio level.

Accelerated Development

Parallel processing across our network accelerates deep tech development timelines. Our learn-fast approach enables rapid decision-making and program advancement across domains, with continuous flow from concept through development guided by empirical loops and computational predictions. Using simulations and empirical loops to catch false positives early gives us more opportunities to succeed while removing obstacles to high-risk high-potential ideas.

Spin-Out Framework

Commercially viable companies or IP are spun out through focused initiatives. Capital recycles into the Holdco through distributions, portfolio licensing, portfolio exits or portfolio IPOs, while new spin-outs are dynamically created as opportunities emerge across the deep tech landscape.

Our Team

Chan Harjivan, PharmD/MBA/MPH

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Special Assistant to the President, Biological Threats • Managing Director/Partner, BCG, PwC • Operation Warp Speed architect

Henk de Jong

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Corporate and Technology Strategy • Entrepreneur, Co-Founder ValueAI Institute • Investor, Venture Partner

John Baldoni, PhD

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Senior Pharma Leadership • AI-driven Drug Discovery, Portfolio • Platform Technology and Science, GSK

John Santerre, PhD

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Machine Learning, Deep Learning • AI Researcher/Instructor, Berkeley, NASA • Founder, Silicon Valley Bank AI Lab

Rebecca Kurnat, MS

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Head of Operations, SaponiQx • Novavax Vaccine Lead, US Government Operation Warp Speed • Technology Selection and Clinical Evaluation, Department of Defense

Douglas Beshore, PhD

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Medicinal Chemist • Director, Exelixis • Principal Scientist, Merck

Christopher Bun, PhD

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Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Cancer Genomics • CSO / CTO, Cancer IQ

Amit Bhattacharyya, PhD

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Quantum Computing • Senior Engineer, IonQ • Machine Learning & Physics • Financial Industry Quant

Saurabha Bhatnagar, PhD

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Physician Executive & Software Engineer • Chief Medical Officer, United Healthcare, VA • Faculty, Harvard Medical School • Health Tech Turnaround Leader

Joe Camardo, MD

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Medical Strategy • CMO, ADC Therapeutics • SVP, Celgene, Pfizer, Wyeth

Robin Prince, PhD

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DNA Encoded Libraries • Informatics & Molecular Biology, Dice Therapeutics

Steven Spear, PhD/MEM

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Management Systems • High Performance Organization • Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan

Ashley Lim, MBA

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Life Sciences Strategy & Business Operations • Supply Chain, Project Management • Boston Consulting Group

Alph Bingham, PhD

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Senior Pharma Leadership • Collaborative Drug Discovery, InnoCentive • R&D Executive, Eli Lilly

Andrew Anderson, MBA

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Life Sciences Software • VP Innovation, ACD labs

Andrew Francis

Founder • Distributed Innovation • Entrepreneur, Impact Investor

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