Benjamina Bollag was running out of money at her lab-grown pork start-up when she spotted a tweet from the OpenAI founder Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT. It was 2020, and Altman was announcing the launch of his latest investment vehicle Apollo Projects. The 38-year-old Silicon Valley heavyweight is an active backer of tech startups, with successes including Airbnb and Elon Musk's Neuralink. His tweet revealed that Apollo Projects intended to back more 'moonshots' — science-based start-ups looking to solve global challenges — and that applications for funding were open.

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