Fred Turner

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Their bio fund did our seed round right out of YC, and I don't think they did the TAM calculation.

They were like, oh, this sounds interesting, and then they did the round.

It was a small round.

It was like 1.65 million.

Chum change.

It was.

Thanks for the coffee.

It was, you know, for a friend reason, it was like a small around.

Sure.

And so we kept developing the technology.

We had customers.

And then we went to go raise an A. And then people did do the time calculation.

And there's about 100 million cows in the US.

If you're doing well, you could charge $15 to $20 per test.

So even if you assume you could test every cow every year, you'd be at $1.5 billion like total market, which is not enough to do a series A off of.

And so what we ended up doing is taking some of the core DNA testing technology that we had developed, pivoting, and using that for human diagnostics.

And so that was my kind of first foray into health care.

We actually first launched a high-throughput STD testing lab, which was, and we launched an at-home STD test.

That was tons of fun.

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