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Foundation Medicine· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Foundation Medicine is a global, patient-focused precision medicine company delivering high-quality, transformative diagnostic solutions in cancer and other diseases. We provide tests and solutions to transform care throughout a patient’s experience, from defining a diagnosis to determining the appropriate treatment to ongoing monitoring. We help accelerate the development of new personalized therapies by leveraging our vast knowledge of precision medicine, real world data and AI-powered tools, expanding the information our diagnostic solutions provide to enable improved outcomes for patients. Every day, we are inspired to think differently to transform the lives of people living with cancer and other diseases. For more information, visit us at www.FoundationMedicine.com.Community Guidelines: bit.ly/FMICommunityGuidelines
- Series B
- 1.8k employees
- Founded 2010
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Amyris· Emeryville, California, United States
Amyris is a vertically integrated biomanufacturing company that creates specialty molecules for a range of industries, including flavors and fragrances, advanced materials, beauty and personal care, food, and more. Using advanced fermentation technology, Amyris customizes, creates, and manufactures ingredients that enhance lives, protect ecosystems, and take products to the next level of performance.Amyris was founded in 2003 with a bold humanitarian vision to transform access to a lifesaving antimalarial compound using biotechnology. Now, with over two decades of proven commercial success, our proprietary platform is redefining the precision, consistency, and sustainability that is possible with renewable biological chemistry.
- Grant
- 991 employees
- Founded 2003
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CareDx, Inc.· Brisbane, California, United States
CareDx is a leading precision medicine diagnostics company advancing care in transplant, specialty oncology, and cell therapy. Through non-invasive longitudinal molecular biomarker testing, digital health, and patient support solutions, CareDx is dedicated to improving patient outcomes. For more information, please visit www.caredx.com. Our Mission: Create life-changing solutions that enable patients to thrive. Our Vision: A world where every patient receives the care they need to live longer, fuller lives.
- Post-IPO equity
- 856 employees
- Founded 1998
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Veracyte, Inc.· South San Francisco, California, United States
Veracyte is a global diagnostics company that empowers clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our growing menu of diagnostic tests answers important clinical questions to help patients avoid risky, costly procedures and interventions, and accelerate time to appropriate treatment.
- Post-IPO equity
- 733 employees
- Founded 2008
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Zai Lab· Shanghai, China
Zai Lab is an innovative, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company based in China and the United States. We are focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing transformative products that address medical conditions with significant unmet patient needs in the areas of oncology, autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases and neurological disorders. Our goal is to leverage our capabilities and resources to reach one million patients by 2030, positively impacting human health worldwide. See our Community Guidelines here: www.zailaboratory.com/community-guidelines/
- Post-IPO equity
- 537 employees
- Founded 2014

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Vera Therapeutics, Inc.· Brisbane, California, United States
Vera Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases to improve patients’ lives.Fraud alert for potential candidates for positions at Vera: your personal information and online safety are a top priority for us. At Vera Therapeutics, recruiters will only direct candidates to apply through our official career page at https://veratx.com/careers/. We will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers. If you are unsure if a message is from Vera Therapeutics, please email hr@veratx.com.
- Post-IPO equity
- 355 employees
- Founded 2016
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OPTIC· San Francisco, California, United States
AI-powered drug discovery platform for rapid molecule screening and testing, from target identification to lab validation. Automating biotech R&D.About Optic Optic started as an AI research team developing high-performance similarity search algorithms. Today our proprietary AI-technology is powering products in multiple industries from blockchain to biotech.
- Seed
- 283 employees
- Founded 2021
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Rapid Micro Biosystems· Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Rapid Micro Biosystems is a life sciences technology company providing automation solutions that improve the manufacturing process and enable the fast, safe release of critical healthcare products like biologics, vaccines, cell and gene therapies, and sterile injectables. We are a trusted partner in quality control microbiology automation, helping customers enhance lives and improve patient outcomes.Our vision is realized through the Growth Direct® System.The Growth Direct® platform replaces outdated, manual microbiology testing in large pharmaceutical manufacturing operations worldwide. By bringing quality control directly to the manufacturing floor, Growth Direct® enables faster, more accurate results, greater efficiency, and improved compliance with data integrity standards. These benefits help our customers make quicker, more informed decisions and ensure a reliable supply of vital healthcare products.Our company values guide us in achieving our vision:•Customer-Driven: We are committed to delivering high-quality products and services.•Respect: We embrace diversity and foster trust within our teams.•Grit: We face challenges with determination and find solutions.•One RMB: We work together as one unified team, driven by a shared purpose.The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, and has U.S. manufacturing in Lowell, Massachusetts, and global locations in Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands.
- Post-IPO equity
- 203 employees
- Founded 2006
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Arsenal Biosciences, Inc.· South San Francisco, California, United States
ArsenalBiosciences, Inc., is a clinical stage programmable cell therapy company focused on the realization of solid tumor cell therapy to defeat cancer. Our discovery engine comprises precise CRISPR-enabled genome editing, integrated circuits incorporating logic gates for improved tumor targeting, and therapeutic enhancements enabling multiple pharmaceutical functions. With our programmable and computationally driven approach, we aim for enhanced and broader efficacy, increased patient safety, reduced provider costs and expanded market access. Our team is engineering living medicines to attack cancer’s inherent multi-faceted nature and bring dramatic improvements to the lives of patients.
- Series C
- 178 employees
- Founded 2019
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OriGene· Rockville, Maryland, United States
OriGene Technologies was founded as a research tool company focused on the creation of the largest commercial collection of full-length human cDNAs in a standard expression vector. The availability of the complete human genome sequence and the subsequent development of genome-based tools have enabled the identification of relevant drug targets through system biology approaches. OriGene's vision is to prepare comprehensive, genome-wide research tools and technology platforms to enable scientists to study complete biological pathways, thus enabling a better understanding of disease mechanisms including cancer and stem cell research.OriGene Technologies uses high-throughput, genome wide approach to develop products for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic research. Our flagship product is the cDNA clone collection, a searchable gene bank of over 30,000 human full-length TrueClone cDNA collections and over 25,000 TrueORF cDNA clones. From our TrueORF cDNA clones, we have developed the largest offering of full-length human proteins expressed in mammalian cells, ideal for functional studies. In 2010, OriGene initiated the TrueMAB project to develop mouse monoclonal antibodies against protein antigens to develop protein assays for every human protein.In addition, OriGene offers unique gene expression products such as TissueScan cancer tissue qPCR arrays and tissue biorepository for biomarker discovery and validationOriGene is committed to its mission to be “Your Gene Company”, supplying everything a researcher needs for gene-based research.Visit us at https://www.origene.com
- Series unknown
- 132 employees
- Founded 1996

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