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
Corporate
Academic
China Accelerator
SOSV accelerator
Academic
Cooley
Corporate
Academic
Corporate
Corporate
SOSV accelerator
Corporate
Academic
SOSV accelerator
Academic
MOX
SOSV accelerator
Corporate
SOSV accelerator
Corporate
Corporate
Academic
Corporate
Corporate
Academic
Academic
Mentors of IndieBio
Adam D'augelli
True Ventures
Alex Felman
Felman Family Office
Alex Shandrovsky
L'chaim Sushi
Andrea Wong
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
Timeline
Funded Companies
Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
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.
Pheronym is a biotechnology company based out of Davis, California making pheromones that control agricultural pests and can be used as a replacement for toxic pesticides.
New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant based alternative seafood products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.
Company making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.
Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.
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.
Clara Foods is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.
Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) is a food company located in San Leandro, California, founded by Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon in 2017 producing a salmon meat substitute made from fungi.
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.
A life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.
Stelvio Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing therapeutics for cancer.
Caspr Biotech is developing a CRISPR-based platform for rapid diagnostic systems for viruses, bacteria and genetic mutations
NotCo is a food science company located in Santiago, Chile, making plant-based Greek yogurt, milk, cheese and mayonnaise, with the help of their artificial intelligence software called Giuseppe.
A startup that is building microprocessor and other types of chips with wetware biological neurons. It has applications in sensing, control and computation.
NovoNutrients produce microbes that break down industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and reassemble them into aquaculture feed.
A cellular agriculture company creating meat cultured from animal cells.
Biotherapeutics company focused on medicines for chronic inflammation, metabolic disease and autoimmune disease
Oakbio uses expertise in fermentaion, microbiology and synthetic biology to develop technologies for conversion of waste carbon into high value products.
Chronus Health's platform aims to allow for real-time diagnosis at the point-of-care, providing lab results more quickly.
Endless West is a San Francisco-based spirit and wine manufacturing company.
Animal Biome is developing microbiome testing services for animals.
Immune-compatible gene therapy company.
Girihlet provides an immune map database. Its platform aims to accelerate immune diseases discovery, monitoring and therapeutic approaches.
Calyx (formerly BioInspira) is a company building a versatile sensor platform that can detect airborne chemicals.
Accelerator batches
People
Alex Kopelyan
Program director and partner
Jun Axup
Scientific director and partner
Jun Axup, PhD
Partner
Maya Lockwood
Communications director
Parikshit Sharma
Analyst
Po Bronson
Strategy Director
Further reading
A Silicon Valley biotech hub that offers startups $250,000 in funding explains the 'secret sauce' to success
Erin Brodwin
Web article
Quartzy partners with IndieBio to connect promising biotech startups with the lab supplies they need to drive scientific progress
IndieBio and Quartzy
News article
Scientist.com and IndieBio Create Next Generation Innovation Marketplace to Accelerate Early Stage Biotech Research
Scientist.com and IndieBio
News article
Tour the San Francisco lab that's growing meat in a petri dish
Christina Farr
Web article
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
42 Questions with IndieBio - Can your company affect a billion people?
September 13, 2017
Arvind Gupta - IndieBio - Helping Scientists Use Biology and Technology to Solve Global Problems - Future Tech Podcast
June 25, 2018
Indiebio - Jun Axup, Director Of Science - World's Largest Seed Bio-Technology Accelerator - Future Tech Podcast
January 9, 2018
NewCo Spotlight: IndieBio Is Turning Scientists Into Entrepreneurs
April 14, 2016