Takeoff41 highlighted in Stanford HIT Fund's Startup Spotlight

Stanford's HIT Fund highlighted Takeoff41 in its Startup Spotlight, tracing the company's path from Stanford research to a startup piloting its software at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and signing its first commercial customer.

The spotlight recounts how the team analyzed a decade of TPN data to create 15 standardized formulations and an AI model that suggests the best fit for each infant, with peer-reviewed results that outperformed human prescriptions. It also notes the 2025 Nature Medicine paper behind the approach was named one of the ten best clinical research projects of 2025.

The spotlight also notes the company's momentum, with a recent fundraising round five times oversubscribed, and its work beyond the NICU, including an ongoing trial delivering customized nutrition for adult transplant patients in the ICU.