Technology Ventures

The firm’s past ventures have included one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, a leading provider of computational chemistry software, and a highly regarded drug discovery firm pursuing a promising new approach to the treatment of cancer. Currently, D. E. Shaw Research and Development, L.L.C., is an internally funded interdisciplinary technology venture pursuing an ambitious, long-term research effort aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the field of biochemistry and revolutionizing the process of drug discovery.