We got a term sheet last year that explicitly cut the CMC budget to make the burn look better. Declined.

Every time gene therapy pricing comes up someone says "manufacturing" and then nobody funds manufacturing. It is the least glamorous line item in every deck I have seen.

Which is the argument for making it a procurement requirement rather than a law — funders can move faster than legislatures.

Rewriting firmware in Rust is fun but the actual reliability win here was the watchdog, which you could have added in C.

This is the most honest write-up of seed terms I have read. The part about pro-rata rights is the part founders always skip.

True, and said so in the README. The Rust part was mostly so contributors stop segfaulting the pH loop.