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$964.2m
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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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$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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$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
5
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$72.2m
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Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.
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- Alexandre Zanghellini *********.***********@arzeda.com
- Walter G. Rakitsky ******.********@arzeda.com
- Eric Althoff ****.*******@seattlechildrens.org
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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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$1.9b
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Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.
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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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$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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$15.6m
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Protera is a biotechnology company that works with protein engineering to address challenges in food, agriculture, the environment, and human health.
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- Francia Navarrete Utreras *******@proterabio.com
- Leonardo Alvarez ********@proterabio.com
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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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$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
8
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$288.0m
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Viome is a longevity and preventative healthcare company that offers oral microbiome and gut microbiome testing services, founded by Deepak Savadatti and Naveen Jain.
8
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$479.3m
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Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery, artificial intelligence company that looks to treat cancer and age related diseases
10
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$930.0m
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Tempus, a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
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7
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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
4
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$390.0m
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An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model
1
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$25.3m
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Leo Cancer Care is a company developing upright radiotherapy solutions.
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8
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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.
5
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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.
6
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$168.0m
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Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.
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- Michael Bodekær Jensen *******@labster.com
- Mads Tvillinggaard Bonde
8
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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.
4
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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
4
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$725.0k
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Pheronym is a biotechnology company based out of Davis, California, which makes pheromones that control agricultural pests and can be used as a replacement for toxic pesticides.
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- Dr. Fatma Kaplan *******@pheronym.com
- Karl Cameron Schiller ********@pheronym.com
4
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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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$1.9b
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Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.
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- James Rogers *****@apeel.com
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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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7
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$63.3m
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Catalog is a Boston, Massachusetts-based company developing a platform for DNA-based digital data storage.
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- Hyunjun Park *******@catalogdna.com
- Nathaniel Roquet linkedin
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$5.9m
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Lucigen is a biotechnology company offering research and testing products and services to life science professionals. The company was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.
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$34.0m
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Paradromics is an Austin, Texas-based company developing a high-volume bidirectional data streaming capabilities between brains and computers.
5
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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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$331.1m
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Modern Meadow is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture and biofabrication to manufacture bioleather, "Zoa", out of cultured animal free collagen mixed with natural and man made materials.
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- Gabor Forgacs
- Francoise Marga ******@modernmeadow.com
- Karoly Jakab ******@modernmeadow.com
2
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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.
8
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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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Key people:
- Peter Quinzio linkedin
- Matt De Silva *****@cornell.edu
- Pete Quinzio (entrepreneur) linkedin
9
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$276.0m
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A diagnostic DNA testing company using quantified biological data.
2
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$14.6m
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A biotechnology company that has built a robotic cloud lab which allows on-demand services for biology laboratories.
3
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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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5
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$457.2m
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EGenesis is a gene editing and genome engineering company developing human-compatible engineered organs to treat diseases
2
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$158.0m
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Senti Biosciences is a synthetic biology company.
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Key people:
- Timothy Lu ***.**@sentibio.com
- Philip Lee ******.***@sentibio.com
- Wilson Wong
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$399.8m
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Human Longevity is a genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived.
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- Peter Diamandis **********@gmail.com
- Robert Hariri *******@humanlongevity.com
- J. Venter
10
Funding Rounds
$635.4m
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Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.
1
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$100.0k
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Lazarus 3D provides medical training and surgery rehearsal services through their soft-tissue 3D printed models built using MRI or CT images of patient anatomy.
5
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$104.5m
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A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
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- Christopher Somogyi
- Chris Dammann ********@bluenalu.com
- Lou Cooperhouse ************@bluenalu.com
5
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$32.0m
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Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.
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- Sonia Arrison linkedin
- Yuri van Geest twitter
- George Eng ****@salesforce.com
3
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$2.9m
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Chronomics is an AI-driven platform company that tracks epigenetics for personalized healthcare based in the United Kingdom.
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- Charles Ball *******@chronomics.com
- Toby Call ****@chronomics.com
- Daniel Elías Martín Herranz ******@chronomics.com
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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
2
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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.
1
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$300.0m
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BGI is a life science and genomics organization following a development model of research, production and application.
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$256.5m
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Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.
3
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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
2
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$64.0m
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Endpoint Health specializes in precision immunology therapeutics for patients with critical and chronic inflammatory illnesses.
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- Leonardo Maestri Teixeira linkedin
- Jeff Osborn *****@cornell.edu
- Diego Rey *****@endpointhealth.com
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$1.4m
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MicroSynbiotiX was a company developing cost-effective oral vaccines to combat aquaculture infections and improve global food security. It was acquired by Sundew in 2021.
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- Sebastian Cocioba linkedin
- Antonio Lamb *******.****@microsynbiotix.com
- Simon Jegan Porphy *****.******@microsynbiotix.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
10
Funding Rounds
$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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7
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$114.3m
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Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
9
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$474.1m
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Solugen is a speciality chemical manufacturing company developing aiming to replace petroleum-based chemicals with alternatives made from plant-based substitutes.
6
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$138.2m
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Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.
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- Peter Verstrate *****.***@cytovale.com
- Mark Post ****@mosameat.com
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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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$111.8m
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Orig3n is a biotechnology company developing personalized regenerative medicine treatments based on patient genetic profiles.
2
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Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded in on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan.
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$175.0m
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Viridos is applying synthetic biology to microalgae for the production of products that address climate change and sustainability. Viridos is focused on producing algal biofuels and other sustainable resources from algae.
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- Craig Venter *******@jcvi.org
- David Kiernan
- Hamilton Smith
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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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Key people:
- 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.
1
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$1.5m
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Innovative Biochips (iBioChips) is a Sugar Land, Texas-based biotechnology company developing biosensors and lab-on-chip bioassays.