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$364.2m
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Neuralink is a company that develops brain-computer interface (BCI) devices to assist people with paralysis and blindness and technologies that may expand the abilities of humans.
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- Jared Birchall *****@neuralink.com
- Max Hodak ******@maxhodak.com
- Paul Merolla
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$263.1m
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Mammoth Biosciences is an American company based in San Francisco founded on June 1, 2017. Mammoth Biosciences uses CRISPR technology to develop bio-sensing technologies for diagnostics in industries such as healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and forensics and genome editing therapeutics.
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- Janice Chen ******@mammoth.bio
- Lucas Harrington *****@mammoth.bio
- Jennifer Doudna ******@berkeley.edu
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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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$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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$1.3b
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Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.
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- Henrique Dubugras ********@brex.com
- Pedro Franceschi *****@brex.com
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$711.5m
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Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.
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- Ryan Pandya ****@perfectday.com
- Perumal Gandhi *******.******@perfectday.com
- Isha Datar ****@new-harvest.org
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$20.3m
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New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.
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$220.0m
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Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
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$115.9m
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Nurx is a telemedicine service company that delivers oral contraceptives and various testing kits to its customers. It was founded in 2015 and has headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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$551.0m
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Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.
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$580.8m
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Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.
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- Uma Valeti ***@upsidefoods.com
- Nicholas Genovese linkedin
- Will Clem linkedin
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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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$4.1b
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The World's First Digital Clinic for Back and Joint Pain
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Stämm is downsizing a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, pug-n-play desktop unit called The Bioprocessor.
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$3.4m
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Chai Biotechnologies (also known as Chai and Chai Bio) is a biotechnology company building real-time PCR, qPCR and devices that detect pathogens, speciate meat and genotype DNA.
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$125.0m
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Synchron, Inc. is a technology company building implantable neural interface solutions, including endovascular brain-computer interface.
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$71.3m
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Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.
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- Peter Quinzio linkedin
- Matt De Silva *****@cornell.edu
- Pete Quinzio (entrepreneur) linkedin
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$276.0m
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A diagnostic DNA testing company using quantified biological data.
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$14.3m
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Aria Pharmaceuticals is a first-in-class pharmaceutical discovery and development founded in 2014 by Andrew M. Radin.
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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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$160.0m
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Suki is a Redwood City, California-based technology company developing AI-powered administrative tools for the healthcare industry.
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- Punit Soni *****@suki.ai
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$313.0m
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Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.
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- Nat Turner linkedin
- Zach Weinberg ****@flatiron.com
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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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$120.0m
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Scribe Therapeutics develops molecular engineering solutions for CRISPR-based genetic medicine.
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- Benjamin L. Oakes ***@scribetx.com
- Jennifer Doudna ******@berkeley.edu
- Brett T. Staahl *****@scribetx.com
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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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$714.0m
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An insurance technology offering a platform for companies to manage health insurance policies for their employees.
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- Rajaie Batniji ******.*******@collectivehealth.com
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$48.1m
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Spire is a company developing tags that provide health tracking including respiration, sleep, stress, activity, and pulse rate.
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- Jonathan Palley ********@clevertinyhomes.com
- Neema Moraveji
- Ben Yule *****@cloudflare.com
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$21.2m
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Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.
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- Ryan Bethencourt ****@wildearth.com
- Ron Shigeta linkedin
- Abril Estrada linkedin
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$132.0m
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Practice Fusion is a San Francisco-based developer of electronic health record and medical practice management software.
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- Ryan Howard (entrepreneur) ****@getbuddy.com
- Matthew Douglass *********@practicefusion.com
- Jonathan Malek
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$411.9m
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Benchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.
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- Sajith Wickramasekara *******@benchling.com
- Ashutosh Singhal twitter
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$4.6m
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Nanomedicine company developing vaccines and therapies with cell-specific targeting.
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$459.7m
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Silicon Valley-based genetic engineering startup.
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- Alex Pesch ****.*****@cellares.com
- Paul Dabrowski ****.*********@synthego.com
- Michael Dabrowski *******.*********@synthego.com
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$22.8m
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Emerald Therapeutics is a biotechnology company located in San Fransisco, California, founded by Brian Frezza and DJ Klienbaum in 2010. Emerald Therapeutics offers cloud a based software and hardware platform that allows researchers to remotely perform automated scientific laboratory experiments.
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$36.3m
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Chronicled is a blockchain company founded by Ryan Orr, Samantha Radocchia, Maurizio Greco and David Aho.
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- Maurizio Greco ********@chronicled.com
- David Aho
- Samantha Radocchia linkedin
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$84.5m
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SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free
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- Joshua March linkedin
- Kasia Gora *****@scififoods.com
- Jess Krieger
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$140.0m
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Mission Bio is a South San Francisco based company that develops single-cell DNA analysis and precision genomics.
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$46.0m
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A company using RNA to diagnose disease and to develop biomarkers that predict treatment outcomes. Cofactor is founded by Jarret Glasscock.
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- Jarret Glasscock ******@cofactorgenomics.com
- Jon Armstrong ***@gethealthy.store
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$350.0k
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A biotechnology company that is building a smart toilet monitor for non-invasive early detection of gastrointestinal cancers and diseases. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.
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$8.6m
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Nebula Genomics is a genetics company developing a platform for individuals to get their personal genome sequenced, and then enable them to store and control that information through cryptographic encryption on the blockchain.
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- Dennis Grishin ******@nebula.org
- George Church ******.******@dyno-tx.com
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$119.5m
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Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.
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- Justin Kolbeck ******@thewildtype.com
- Arye Elfenbein ****@wildtypefoods.com
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$967.6m
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Freenome is a San Francisco-based company which uses genetic analysis for early cancer detection and risk assessment.
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- Gabriel Otte ****@cornell.edu
- Riley Ennis linkedin
- Charles Roberts *******@freenome.com
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$155.6m
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Athelas is a company developing blood testing device that utilizes deep learning and computer vision.
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- Tanay Tandon *****@athelas.com
- Deepika Bodapati *******@athelas.com
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$743.2m
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A bioinformatics company in San Francisco building data collection methods and databases that will enable machine learning algorithms in healthcare. It was founded in 2018.
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- Daphne Koller ******@insitro.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.
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- Christina Smolke *******@stanford.edu
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$750.0k
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Nextbiotics is a biotechnology and synthetic biology company that leverages synthetic biology tools and bacteriophage technology to provide solutions to the antibiotic resistance crisis.
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$518.6m
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Cue Health is a San Diego-based medical device company working to track health information at the molecular level.
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$249.0m
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Eko Health is a digital health and AI technology company developing tools for heart and lung disease detection.
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- Tyler Crouch *****@ekodevices.com
- Connor Landgraf ******@ekohealth.com
- Jason Bellet *****@ekohealth.com
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$100.4m
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A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.
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$27.5m
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Mission Barns is a clean meat company company is headquartered in Berkeley, California producing clean meat. The company was founded in March, 2018, by Eitan Fischer (former director of cellular agriculture of JUST, Inc) and David Bowman.
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$2.4m
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Bloom API is a healthcare company focused on communication practices.
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$13.3m
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Fauna Bio is a Berkeley, California-based biotechnology company.
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- Katie Grabek *****@faunabio.com
- Ashley Zehnder ******@faunabio.com
- Linda Goodman *****@faunabio.com
3
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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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$30.0m
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Company manufacturing 3d printed pharmaceuticals based in San Francisco, CA
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- Fred Parietti ****@multiplylabs.com
- Alice Melocchi *****@multiplylabs.com
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$87.8m
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DNA synthesis company using enzymatic DNA synthesis based in San Francisco.
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$29.0m
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A company that develops next-generation sequencing (NGS) metagenomics company developing infectious disease tests. It was founded in 2014 and is located in Salt Late City, Utah.
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$3.3m
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An enterprise software company developing computer aided design (CAD) tools for designing and testing DNA sequences.
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- Michael Fero *****@teselagen.com
- Eduardo Abeliuk *******.*******@teselagen.com
- Nathan Hillson
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$24.1m
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BetterDoctor, a technology company, delivers provider directory data and has a database that can be accessed through a responsive API.
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- Norm Alpert *******@vestarcapital.com
- David Hill *****@terrestrialenergy.com
- John Weis
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$187.0m
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A company creating sustainable design solutions with biomaterials. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.
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$3.5m
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Biotechnology company using Artificial Intelligence to discover drugs by translating life sciences big data into therapies
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- Gini Deshpande ****.*********@numedii.com
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$67.0m
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Faeth Therapeutics is a start-up that focuses on using nutrition and metabolism to fight cancer.
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- Siddhartha Mukherjee *.*********@columbia.edu
- Lewis C. Cantley ********@hms.harvard.edu
- Karen Vousden twitter
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$228.0m
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A biopharmaceutical company developing neurobehavioural therapeutic treatments using artificial intelligence and clinical neuroscience.
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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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$16.8m
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YourChoice Therapeutics is a biotechnology company founded in 2018 is developing contraceptives for men and women. The technology for their non-hormonal contraceptive products arose from research at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Nadja Mannowetz linkedin
- Akash Bakshi *****@yourchoicetx.com
- Nadja Mannowetz
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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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$50.5m
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Memora Health is a company that created a health care productivity software that improves outpatient communication through automation.
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- Nisarg Patel linkedin
- Kunaal Naik ******.****@memorahealth.com
- Manav Sevak *****.*****@memorahealth.com
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$617.8m
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Carbon Health is a healthcare company. They primarily serve California and the Reno area.
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- Eren Bali linkedin
- Caesar Djavaherian ******@carbonhealth.com
- Greg Burrell
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$150.0m
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Nobell Foods is a San Francisco-based alternative protein manufacturer focused on developing and manufacturing plant-based dairy alternatives.
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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