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$140.4m
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Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.
Key people:
- Sean Ward ****@igent.ai
- Christopher Grant linkedin
- Markus Gershater ******.*********@synthace.com
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$50.0k
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Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
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$406.4m
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Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
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- Dan Widmaier linkedin
- David Breslauer linkedin
- Ethan Mirsky ********@alum.mit.edu
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$254.1m
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Owkin is a medical treatment and therapeutics company founded by Thomas Clozel. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to augment and develop medical and biological research.
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- Thomas Clozel ******.******@owkin.com
- Gilles Wainrib ******.*******@polytechnique.org
6
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$356.3m
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Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery, artificial intelligence company that looks to treat cancer and age related diseases
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$1.8b
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Grail is a biotechnology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California that was founded as a spinoff of Illumina Inc and initially headed by Jeffrey Huber in 2016, focused on making a medical device that can detect early stage cancer.
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$635.4m
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Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.
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$16.8m
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Orbit Discovery offers a DNA-encoded peptide display technology to identify potential peptide drugs for a range of chronic diseases.
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$83.3m
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BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.
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- Elvis Mboumien Wianda *****@benchsci.com
- Liran Belenzon *****@benchsci.com
- Tom Leung (entrepreneur) ******@benchsci.com
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$49.6m
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Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.
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- Kourosh Davarpanah *******.**********@inato.com
- William Pambrun *******@phacetlabs.com
- Philippe Ravaud linkedin
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$218.1m
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HistoSonics is a venture-backed medical device start-up company developing a non-invasive sonic beam therapy platform and procedure using the science of histotripsy. Histotripsy utilizes the pressure created by focused sound energy to liquify and destroy targeted tissue, including diseased tissue and tumors, at sub-cellular levels.
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$50.0m
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An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.
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- Eric Steen (entrepreneur) linkedin
- JAY D. KEASLING ********@berkeley.edu
- Jeffrey Dietrich *********@rarebird.coffee
6
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$88.0m
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Prellis Biologics is developing technology to build transplantable human organs and tissues.
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$24.1m
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Neos Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical company developing ADHD medications founded in 2008.
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$145.0m
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Cala Health offers bioelectronic medicines, medical devices, and neurotherapeutics for managing chronic health conditions.
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$117.5m
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Locus Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing CRISPR-Cas3-engineered precision antibacterial products.
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- Nick Taylor ******@locus-bio.com
- Paul Garofolo ****.********@locus-bio.com
- Charles Gersbach linkedin
3
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$54.1k
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ApexQubit is a biotechnology company that is harnessing a proprietary technology for discovery of new medicines to treat patients with undruggable diseases.
14
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$87.2m
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A medical company in Massachusetts focusing on lowering the cost of vaccine distribution.
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- Michael Schrader (entrepreneur) *******@vaxess.com
- Fiorenzo Omenetto ********.********@tufts.edu
- Livio Valenti *****@vaxess.com
5
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$57.1m
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Metabolon is a company developing metabolomics analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery
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$265.4m
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A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.
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$92.7m
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Develops medicines for patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders.
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- Martin Tolar ******.*****@alzheon.com
3
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$280.0m
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A therapeutics company founded in 2016 working in drug discovery and development using fungi. LifeMine uses genomics approaches to search for biosynthetic genes in eukaryotic microbes for the discovery of naturally inspired drugs to treat previously untreatable and significant chronic diseases.
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- WeiQing Zhou *****@lifeminetx.com
- Richard Klausner
- Greg Verdine ********@lifeminetx.com
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$73.0m
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Antheia is an American biotechnology company founded in 2013, and is located in Menlo Park, California. Antheia uses synthetic biology, informatics, and fermentation technologies to produce plant based medicines; most notably opioids using yeast.
Key people:
- Christina Smolke *******@stanford.edu
10
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$187.8m
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Causaly is a biomedical research discovery tool founded in 2018 by Yiannis Kiachopoulos.
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- Artur Saudabayev *****.**********@causaly.com
- Yiannis Kiachopoulos *******.************@causaly.com
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$39.9m
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Rodin Therapeutics was a biotechnology company that developed treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Founded in 2013, it was acquired in 2019 by Alkermes.
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- Ankit Mahadevia **********@sperotherapeutics.com
- Bruce Booth ******@atlasventure.com
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Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.
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$479.5m
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Formerly BioMedicines, Intarcia Therapeutics is an American biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for diseases with long-term treatment requirements.
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- Patrick Conway linkedin
- Nancy Thornberry linkedin
- Kurt Graves ****.******@intarcia.com
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$82.8m
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Peptome is a London-based protein physics intelligence company founded in 2016 by Kamil Tamiola and Matt Heberling. It utilizes artificial intelligence for computers to process all information about protein data in the same efficient way that scientists do.
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- Matthew Heberling ****@run-form.com
- Kamil Tamiola *****.*******@peptone.io
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$1.2m
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Bond Pet Foods is a biotechnology company located in Nederland, Colorado, founded in 2015 by Rich Kelleman. Bond Pet Foods is making "cruelty free" real animal protein pet foods using cellular agriculture.
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$205.5m
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Biotechnology company developing cell permeable macrocyclic peptide therapeutics using an automated chemistry synthesis.
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- Matthew P. Jacobson ********@whitfieldlaw.com
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$677.0m
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A gene editing technology company founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, CO, USA.
2
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$645.0k
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CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.
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- Basil Omar linkedin
- Edward Green (entrepreneur) ******.*****@chainbiotech.com
3
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$59.5m
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64x Bio is a biotechnology company developing a platform for improving speed and scalability of mammalian cell line discovery for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
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- Jeffrey Way
- Pamela Silversa
- George Church ******.******@dyno-tx.com
2
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$24.6m
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Pharmaceutical company that manufactures and licenses technology to make cannabinoid based therapies.
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$65.0m
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Elysium Health is a health product manufacturing company founded in 2014 by Leonard Pershing Guarente.
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$566.0m
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An online pharmacy company that has created technology that can be utilized to expedite the process of getting medication. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015.
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- Jamie Karraker *****.********@alto.com
- Mattieu Gamache-Asselin linkedin
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$69.5m
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AI-powered drug discovery platform.
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- Maximilien Leveque **@aqemia.com
- Emmanuelle Martiano **********.********@aqemia.com
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$12.4m
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Biotechnology company developing synthetic materials for native tissue regeneration and tissue engineering platforms
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$4.0m
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A pharmaceutical company that uses a zebrafish drug-screening platform to find drug candidate molecules that have the capacity to promote regeneration of tissues. Their drug candidate MSI-1436 is being developed and tested for the treatment of heart disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and diabetic nephropathy.
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$572.6m
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Capsule is a healthcare platform transforming the pharmacy experience founded in 2016 by Eric Kinariwala.
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- Eric Kinariwala ****@capsule.com
- Sonia Patel instagram
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$500.0k
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TechEagle Innovations is an India-based drone delivery company.
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- Anshu Abhishek *****@techeagle.in
- Vikram Singh ******@techeagle.in
3
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$31.1m
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Turbine.ai is a Budapest-based drug discovery company founded in 2015 by Daniel Veres, Kristóf Zsolt Szalay and Szabolcs Nagy.
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- Daniel Veres MD ******.*****@turbine.ai
- Kristóf Zsolt Szalay *******.******@turbine.ai
- Szabolcs Nagy ********.****@turbine.ai
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$16.0m
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A pharmaceutical company that develops topical products to treat rare diseases
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$114.0m
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Neurelis Inc. is a private specialty pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, US, providing treatment options for epilepsy and central nervous system disorders.
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$26.5m
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PostEra is a biotechnology company that uses machine learning for medicinal chemistry services.
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- Aaron Morris *****.******@postera.ai
- Matt Robinson
- Matthew Robinson linkedin
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$7.4m
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Redesign Science Inc is a computational chemistry company that is interested in small molecule drug discovery
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$5.1m
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AI-powered CBT therapeutic platform.
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- Oliver Fleetwood linkedin
- John Drakenberg Renander ****@alextherapeutics.com
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NetraMark is a Toronto-based machine learning software company founded by Joseph Geraci in 2015.
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$20.2m
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A biotechnology company developing a drug-screening platform for the acceleration of drug discovery by combining custom laboratory assay and proprietary machine learning algorithms.
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$10.4m
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mediQuo is changing the way patients interact with health professionals, improving their lives.
1
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$8.0m
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PlushCare is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 by James Wantuck.
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$332.5m
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Enterome is a pharmaceutical company founded in 2012 by Pierre Belichard.
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- Stanislav Dusko EHRLICH *********@enteromedics.com
- Pierre Belichard *********@enteromedics.com
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$121.0m
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Anjarium is an early-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation, non-viral gene therapy therapeutics.
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$50.6m
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Cambridge, MA-based company developing targeted mRNA therapeutics for cancer and other diseases.
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- Burak Yilmaz *****@kernalbio.com
- Cafer Ozdemir *****@kernalbio.com
- Yusuf Erkul *****@kernalbio.com
2
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$83.0m
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A technology company making a mobile application for tracking inflammatory irritable bowel disease.
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$124.1m
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Healx is a biotechnology therapeutics company for rare diseases founded in 2014 by Tim Guilliams.
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- David Brown *****.*****@healx.ai
- Tim Guilliams ***.*********@healx.ai
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$35.0m
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Epocrates is a company founded in 1998 by Richard Fiedotin.
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$133.6m
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Intelligent, distributed & reproducible big data & genomics analysis at scale. Zero onboarding. Zero config.
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$65.0m
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GC Therapeutics uses synthetic biology to program patient-derived stem cells into various cell types in an efficient and scalable manner.
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$98.6m
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A biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing small molecules that target G protein-coupled receptors
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$45.4m
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Company developing a protein barcoding platform to employ powerful multiplexed measurement.
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- Gleb Kuznetsov ****@manifold.bio
- Shane Lofgren *****@manifold.bio
- George Church ******.******@dyno-tx.com
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$46.0m
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1mg.com is a company founded in 2015.
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$172.6m
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Genome Medical is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016.
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- Lisa Alderson ****@illuminaventures.com
- Robert Green *****.*************@hotmail.com
- Randy Scott *********@gmail.com
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$50.0m
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A clinical late-stage biopharmaceutical company in California that focuses on treatments of dermatologic conditions such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and prurigo nodularis.
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$8.7m
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A non-profit organization with a focus on scientific and engineering research. It was founded in 1941 and is located in Birmingham, Alabama.
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$32.0m
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Motricity is a company founded by Andrzej Leraczyk.
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4
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$226.0m
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Arrakis is developing RNA-targeted small molecule (rSM) therapies to millions of patients.
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$71.5m
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A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology research company developing T-cell therapies designed to attack solid tumors while sparing normal cells
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$61.0m
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Demetrix is a biotechnology company that uses genes found in natural medicines and introduces them to domesticated microbes, for example, the synthetic production of certain chemicals. Demetrix was founded by Dr Haseltine and Jay Keasling.
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- Jay Keasling ********@berkeley.edu
- William Haseltine linkedin