Transcriptic is a Science as a service (SaaS) biotechnology startup company. The company has developed robotic cloud laboratory platform to speed up scientific discovery.
Researchers and scientists can execute experimentation remotely through the Internet. Transcriptic integrates laboratory instruments and procedures with IoT (Internet of Things) technologies over a single user interface. The automated cloud platform allows laboratory processes such as liquid handling, incubation, refrigeration, centrifugation, spectrophotometry, mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, gel separation, thermocycling, nucleic acid sequencing and liquid chromatography be done remotely upon the researchers order and the syntheses are sent to them.
Transcriptic's robotic cloud laboratory architecture is built on robotics and software. It can support biomarker quantitaton, cell based assays and biochemical assays.
Max Hodak founded Transcriptic on February 14, 2012 in San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the company is now based in Menlo Park, California. Hodak is also the Chief Technical Officer of the company. Yvonne Linney is Transcriptic's Chief Executive Officer. The team is composed of software developers and engineers, scientists and biologists.
Other members of the leadership team include Jimmy Sastra - Vice President for Automation, Evan Worley - Vice President for Software Engineering, Ben Miles - Head of Product, Yin He - Head of Scientific Operations and Celia Chow - Head of Business Operations.
The company has stated aims to turn biology into an information technology, driven by data, computation, and high-throughput robotics with the goal of substantially advancing drug discovery. Our team brings together deep expertise in biology, automation, and software engineering to set new standards for the way research is done.
Synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks and robotic automation software developer Transcriptic have been awarded a joint $9.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through its Synergistic Discovery and Design Program (SD2).
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Funding rounds
People
Adam Draper
Investor
Allison Bawazer-Pedro
Employee
Amédée d'Aboville
Employee
Asif Makhani
Investor
Ben Miles
Head of Product
Bill Siegel
Investor
Blake Byers
Advisor
Brad Gillespie
Board member
Chris Plough
Investor
Damien C. Tanner
Investor
Dave McClure
Investor
David Brown
Investor
David Lichtblau
Investor
Devon George
Investor
Dominic Preuss
Investor
Eric Siegel
Employee
Erica Garcia
Head of People
Evan Worley
Vice President, Software Engineering
Jared Kopf
Investor
Jason Kang
Employee
Jason Seats
Investor
Jeff Hammerbacher
Investor
Jeremy Apthorp
Employee
Jim Young
Investor
Jimmy Sastra
Vice President, Automation
Further reading
5 Q's for Yvonne Linney, Chief Executive Officer of Transcriptic
Center for Data Innovation
ANNOUNCING TRANSCRIPTIC PLATFORM
Max Hodak
Babbage: Automation for the people
The Economist: Babbage
Ginkgo Bioworks and Transcriptic selected by DARPA to leverage robotic cloud lab and foundry automation to accelerate biological design with $9.5 M award
Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks Taps Transcriptic's Robotics Software to Further Accelerate Automation in Organism Design
Transcriptic
In the lab of the future, robots run experiments while scientists sleep
Forbes
Robotic labs for high-speed genetic research are on the rise
The Economist
Transcriptic Appoints Life Science Industry Veteran Jeff Finer, M.D., Ph.D. to Board of Directors
Transcriptic
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Transcriptic
Yvonne Linney
Menlo Park, California
Robotic Cloud Laboratory