Ben Lamm holds one of the dire wolf pups.
Ben Lamm holds one of the dire wolf pups.
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Colossal Biosciences founders raise $30M for stealth AI startup

The entrepreneurs who started Colossal Biosciences, the firm that is trying to bring back the Woolly Mammoth, have raised $30 million for a stealth startup called Astromech.

Colossal Biosciences cofounders Ben Lamm and George Church raised the money, according to financial documents filed with the SEC. The filing was discovered by Distractify. Colossal Biosciences said through a spokesperson that they had no comment.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.