LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.

LinkedIn (MSFT) co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman on Monday launched an AI startup aimed at discovering new treatments for cancer.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer researcher and author of the book “The Emperor of All Maladies,” have co-founded an

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee.

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and famed oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee have raised a whopping $24.6 million in a seed funding round. The money will be used to launch their new artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, Manas AI.

The author of the seminal cancer biography The Emperor Of All Maladies and the co-founder of LinkedIn are looking to connect their skills to the development of new medicines by launching a new artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery outfit.

Armed with $24.6 million in funding, a new startup from LinkedIn (LNKD) co-founder Reid Hoffman and cancer physician Siddhartha Mukherjee is looking to make a splash in the already-crowded world of A.