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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.
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- 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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$236.7m
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A genetic medicine company that build data platforms using synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and genetic medicine for the development of medical therapies.
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- Brendan Frey *******@deepgenomics.com
- Andrew Delong ******@deepgenomics.com
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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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$5.1m
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Indee Labs focuses on the development of microfluidic vortex shedding for rapidly and efficiently transfecting human primary immune cells with negligible perturbation. The team is focused on developing its core technology for short turnaround chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) development and manufacturing.
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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
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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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$83.0m
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Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology founded in 2013 by Curt Becker, Bill Efcavitch and William Efcavitch.
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- Bill Efcavitch ******@saavha.com
- Curt Becker linkedin
- William Efcavitch linkedin
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$25.3m
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Leo Cancer Care is a company developing upright radiotherapy solutions.
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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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$76.5m
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A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaging in drug discovery and drug development for treating autoimmune disease and cancer.
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$158.0m
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Senti Biosciences is a synthetic biology company.
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- Timothy Lu ***.**@sentibio.com
- Philip Lee ******.***@sentibio.com
- Wilson Wong
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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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$410.0m
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Paige provides AI-based digital diagnostics and a vendor-neutral platform designed to drive diagnostic confidence and a more productive pathology workflow.
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$386.6m
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A biotechnology company that develops medicines based on live bacterial consortia that can colonize the human intestine.
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$21.5m
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RoosterBio is a biotechnology company located in Frederick, Maryland, founded by Jon Rowley in 2013 providing standardized stem cell products for R&D, clinical, and commercial use in the regenerative medicine industry.
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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
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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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$190.5m
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Kuur Therapeutics focuses on the development of CAR-NKT cell therapies platform for applications in cancer treatment.
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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
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$2.6m
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Healthera is a provider of a patient experience platform founded in 2015 by Quintus Liu.
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- Quintus Liu *******.***@healthera.co.uk
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$103.1m
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Promethera Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing regenerative medicine treatments for liver diseases.
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$82.6m
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Biotherapeautics company founded in 2014 and based in Paris that uses proprietary methods in synthetic biology, protein and genome engineering to produce Eligobiotics, products which intervene with the microbiome as diagnostics, antimicrobials and modulators of host-microbiome interactions.
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- Xavier Duportet ******.********@eligo.bio
- David Bikard *****.******@eligo.bio
- Timothy Lu ***.**@sentibio.com
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$15.8m
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Massive Bio is a New York-based company founded by Selin Kurnaz, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla and Cagatay M. Culcuoglu, offering precision oncology services to cancer patients, providers, and pharmaceutical companies.
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- Cagatay M Culcuoglu **********@massivebio.com
- Arturo Loaiza Bonilla linkedin
- Selin Kurnaz *******@massivebio.com
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$13.8m
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A biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to attack cancer stem cells.
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$32.0m
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miRagen is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative microRNA-targeting therapies to improve human health.
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$4.6m
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Nanomedicine company developing vaccines and therapies with cell-specific targeting.
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$86.6m
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Prokarium is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing vaccination and cancer immunotherapy solutions based on synthetic biology.
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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.
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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
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$143.4m
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An exosome therapeutics company founded in 2016 and based in Oxford, UK, that uses exosomes to deliver small and large molecule therapeutics. The company has a proprietary technology to modify exosomes to target specific organs such as the brain and central nervous system.
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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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$4.5m
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Cellink AB is a biotechnology research company based in Gothenburg.
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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
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$41.9m
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Onfleet is a company that manages last mile deliveries using routing, dispatching and real-time tracking software.
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- Khaled Naim ******@onfleet.com
- Mikel Cármenes Cavia *****@onfleet.com
- David Vetrano *****@onfleet.com
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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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$50.3m
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Lung Therapeutics is a therapeutics for lung injury and disease company founded in 2013 by Andrew Mazar, Steven Idell and Sreerama Shetty.
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$18.1m
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A biotechnology company that develops treatments for cancer and hematologic conditions
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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.
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- Christina Smolke *******@stanford.edu
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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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$26.8m
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A biotechnology company developing live attenuated vaccines. It was founded in 2012 and is located in New York.
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$230.6m
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Leader in delivering real-world evidence (RWE) and outcomes-based analytics solutions to life science companies and payers.
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- Sebastian Schneeweiss *********.***********@aetion.com
- Jeremy Rassen ******.******@aetion.com
Dharmacon, Inc. is a Lafayette, Colorado-based company founded in 1995.
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$268.8m
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TruePill is a US-based company providing pharmacy product deliveries.
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- Umar Afridi linkedin
- Sid Viswanathan ***@alchemyhealth.com
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$120.0k
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Avro is a life sciences company, located in Canada and founded in 2016 by Shakir Lakhani and Keean Waterloo, Ontario, that makes skin patches capable of delivering generic drugs.
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$52.0m
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3T Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies.
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- Marvin Gee ******.***@3tbiosciences.com
- Luke Lee ****.***@ihcfunds.com
- Leah Sibener twitter
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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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$10.5m
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SmartPharm Therapeutics is a Cambridge, MA-based gene therapy company applying the next generation of non-viral DNA and RNA technologies to treat serious human diseases.
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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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$425.0m
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Tmunity Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing t-cell immunotherapies for the treatment of human diseases.
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- Dr. Yangbing Zhao linkedin
- Dr. Bruce Levine ******@capstantx.com
- Dr. Carl H. June linkedin
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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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$55.0m
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Palvella Therapeutics is committed to developing safe and effective therapies that specifically target the root cause of genetic skin diseases.
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$31.4m
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Oxford Genetics, also known as Oxgene, is a synthetic biology company specializing in DNA design, protein expression optimization and cell line development technologies and services.
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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.
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$11.5m
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An artificial intelligence company with a focus on developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Avi Veidman ***@nucleai.ai
- Lotan Chorev *****@nucleai.ai
- Eliron Amir ******@nucleai.ai
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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
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$96.5m
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Foundation Medicine is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company developing diagnostic and treatment solutions for cancer care founded in 2010 by Alexis Borisy.
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$117.5m
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A biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for urea cycle disorders and other rare diseases
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$30.0m
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Siolta Therapeutics develops microbiome analyses to test microbial-based therapeutics for the treatment and prevention of inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 2016 by Nikole Kimes PhD.
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$19.7m
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OncoSenX is a spinout company of Oisin Biotechnologies, formed to develop programmable suicide gene therapy to kill cancerous cells.
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$30.9m
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Horizon Discovery is a company that offers gene editing, CRO, and diagnostics services