IndieBio

IndieBio is a biotechnology and life science startup accelerator located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2014. Their accelerator program is based in San Francisco, CA, and runs twice a year, with 15 companies in each batch. IndieBio is part of the SOSV accelerator family and provides participating startups with lab space, $250,000 in funding, and a 4-month incubation program for scientists and entrepreneurs to grow their biotechnology business.

On July 25, 2018, IndiebBio announced their seventh class of founders and companies.

IndieBio Class Four

Indiebio Class Three

Indiebio Class One

Partners

Company

Type

Autodesk

Corporate

Berkeley University

Academic

China Accelerator

SOSV accelerator

Columbia University

Academic

Cooley

Corporate

Copenhagen Business School

Academic

Corporate

Corporate

SOSV accelerator

Corporate

Academic

SOSV accelerator

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic

Mount Sinai

Academic

MOX

SOSV accelerator

Corporate

SOSV accelerator

Corporate

Corporate

Academic

Corporate

Corporate

University of California San Francisco

Academic

University of California, Davis

Academic

University of California, San Diego

Academic

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Mentors of IndieBio

Name

Company

Adam D'augelli

True Ventures

Alex Felman

Felman Family Office

Alex Shandrovsky

L'chaim Sushi

Andrea Wong

Google

Andrew Hessel

Autodesk

Antony Evans

TAXA biotechnologies

Atul Butte

Institute of Computational Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco

Ben Kamens

Entrepreneur

Bharath Ramsundar

DeepChem

Bill Efcavitch

Molecular Assemblies

Brian Frezza

Emerald Therapeutics

Brian Naughton

23andMe

Bruce W.Lennett

DLA Piper LLP

Bryan Johnson

OS Fund, Kernal

Cameron Strachan

MetaMixis

Camilla Clarke

Female Algorithm Technologies, Leap Motion

Cindy Wu

Experiment

Connor Dickie

Synbiota Inc.

Cory Kidd

Catalia Health

Curt Fischer

N/A

Dariush Mozaffarian

Tufts University

Darren Leva

Seven Bridges Genomics

David Ayean

IDEO

David Mittelman

Entrepreneur

David Putrino

Director of Rehabilitation Innovation, Mt Sinai Health System | Assistant professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Ichan School of Medicine

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Timeline

July 2018

IndieBio raises a $25,000,000 grant.

Funded Companies

Funding rounds

Accelerator batches

People

Name

Role

Alex Kopelyan

Program director and partner

Arvind Gupta

Managing director and founder

Jun Axup

Scientific director and partner

Jun Axup, PhD

Partner

Maya Lockwood

Communications director

Parikshit Sharma

Analyst

Po Bronson

Strategy Director

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title

Date

Link

42 Questions with IndieBio - Can your company affect a billion people?

September 13, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-nluV8zKs

Arvind Gupta - IndieBio - Helping Scientists Use Biology and Technology to Solve Global Problems - Future Tech Podcast

June 25, 2018

https://www.futuretechpodcast.com/podcasts/arvind-gupta-indiebio-helping-scientists-use-biology-technology-solve-global-problems/

Genetic Engineering at IndieBio

May 8, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwgUSukLvU

Indiebio - Jun Axup, Director Of Science - World's Largest Seed Bio-Technology Accelerator - Future Tech Podcast

January 9, 2018

https://www.futuretechpodcast.com/podcasts/indiebio-jun-axup-director-science-worlds-largest-seed-bio-technology-accelerator/

IndieBio: Build the future of Biotech

January 3, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bp4QATliM

NewCo Spotlight: IndieBio Is Turning Scientists Into Entrepreneurs

April 14, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQsbrShh1Bw

Companies

Company

CEO

Location

Products/Services

Grape-free wine

Egg-free egg whites

Fish without the catch

Geltor

San Francisco

Cellular Agriculture Colagen

Building chips with biological neurons

Lab-grown meat

Matches patients with cancer treatments

Plant-based protein

Plant-based mayonnaise, cheese

News

Title

Author

Date

Publisher

Description

SOSV's burgeoning climate portfolio is worth nearly $6 billion as planetary health bets pay off

Jonathan Shieber

April 22, 2021

TechCrunch

The burgeoning climate focused portfolio from early stage investor SOSV Investments has managed to raise nearly $2 billion in follow on financing since the startup companies graduated from the investment firm's various accelerator programs. Taken together those companies have a collective market capitalization of nearly $6 billion. Ahead of Earth Day this year, the early [...]

From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio's latest class

Greg Kumparak

March 17, 2021

TechCrunch

Ultra precise cancer therapies! Human-like hair grown from plants! A way to potentially save the bees! The spectrum of companies coming out of IndieBio has always been pretty wild, and its latest batch definitely doesn't disappoint. As the early stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship, and [...]

Announcing the agenda for TC Early Stage - Operations & Fundraising

Richard Smith

March 8, 2021

TechCrunch

As an early-stage founder, how do you identify the right investors? Or know how to hire the best possible team to set up your company for growth? Should you bootstrap, and if so, how do you do it successfully? How do you nail virtual pitch meetings? What about product market fit? Board construction and good [...]

Investments in bioproducts surge as Geltor nabs new money

Jonathan Shieber

July 24, 2020

TechCrunch

The manufacturer of a vegan collagen, Geltor, has raised a new round of financing -- $90 million, according to people familiar with the company. It's another sign of the newfound viability of sustainability and cell-based, vegetarian replacements for animal products. Sustainable bio-products, whether plant-based, genetically modified or cell-cultured, are having a big year. In the [...]

IndieBio Class Four

Indiebio Class Three

Indiebio Class One

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