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Sierra Brooks

Sierra is a Senior Scientist and Analyst at IndieBio, where she is responsible for sourcing and performing due diligence on new companies, as well […]

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The MicroBiome is a Drug Factory

At IndieBio, our perspective on gut bacteria is informed not just by the companies we’ve invested in that do human microbiome science, but by […]

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Introducing IndieBio Class Nine

IndieBio helps entrepreneurs build ground-breaking biotech companies. We’re excited to share our ninth class of 11 new startups. They have been here for thirty […]

Founder Story

Reazent: Powering Organic Agriculture

Despite the demand from consumers and environmental benefit, organic agriculture accounts for less than 2% of global agricultural land. Reazent is on a mission […]

Founder Story

Sustaining Biomaterials Growth in New York

New York is a global center of cultural and economic affairs, such as theatre, food, fashion, and international business. At Unexpected Biotech, IndieBio featured […]

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Introducing IndieBio New York

The large, systemic problems facing humanity have never been clearer, nor has the need for innovative biotech solutions for these problems. The new IndieBio […]

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Building Food Molecule byΒ Molecule

Lessons learned in Biotech Food Innovation Over our first four classes and 55 startups funded, IndieBio has built up a new class of food […]

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Call for Applications

Biology is the next big technology and we are looking for scientists that will usher the new wave of iconic life science companies. β€œNothing […]

Founder Story

Khepra: Renewable fuels from waste

Khepra is building continuous flow reactors that deploy high-intensity ultrasound frequencies to take waste β€” everything from unrecyclable plastics to biomass to cardboard β€” […]

Founder Story

NovoNutrients: making food from CO2

As the world’s population continues to balloon, demand for seafood is going with it. Aquaculture is the primary method to meet demand, but relies […]

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AvantGuard

The future of long-term pathogen protection with cutting-edge antimicrobial solutions
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The 2023 SOSV Human Health 100

Welcome to the second annual SOSV Human Health 100. The list captures SOSV’s 100 most exciting companies in human health as of April 2023. […]

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Introducing IndieBio Class Eight

We’re excited to announce our eighth class at IndieBio. IndieBio invests in revolutionary technologies for human and planetary health, and each of these companies, […]

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IndieBio Coronavirus Initiative

We are seeking up to 8 startups to receive a minimum of $250,000 each to pursue the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines, disinfection, and […]

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#RedefiningBillionaire

I was recently inspired by Jason Silva’s Captains of Spaceship Earth: “First we build the tools and then the tools build us” Biology, as […]

Founder Story

Free to Feed: Empowering Breastfeeding Mothers

Free to Feed helps breastfeeding mothers with allergic babies. Breastfeeding babies can react to allergens passed through the mother’s milk, and Free to Feed […]

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The New Biotech

Explore the β€œNew Biotech” with the IndieBio team and learn how we can re-imagine, re-materialize, and rebuild the world together. As a traditional natural […]

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mFluiDX

Faster and cheaper than PCR
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Creating a Global Movement

On Conscious Leadership: Jack Sim By his count, before he turns 80 and is confined to a wheelchair and can’t remember his wife’s name, […]

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Westley Dang

At IndieBio, Westley leads deal sourcing and diligence, as well as working with startups with best practices, poking holes in their science, and bomb-proofing […]

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A PhD is perfect for a startup

By Lenny Teytelman In my 2.5 years as a co-founder of ZappyLab, the most surprising aspect of entrepreneurship for me has been the realization […]

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StΓ€mm: Reinventing the Bioreactor

Biology is the best platform for manufacturing cells. It can grow and produce all kinds of biomaterials very effectively. But for humans to be […]

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I have an idea. WhatΒ next?

At IndieBio, we often get bright scientists and aspiring entrepreneurs asking us what they should do to transform their idea into a company. We’ve […]

Demo Days

RECAP: SF Demo Day (Batch 13)

IndieBio SF’s Demo Day was a huge success! We started off the day with an online demo day at 10 AM PST with incredible […]

Founder Story

Beemunity: Protecting Our Pollinators

Beemmunity protects bees from the effects of both lethal and sublethal exposure to pesticides. Their ingestible microsponge technology absorbs all pesticides and allows them […]

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What next?

We received an incredible number of great applications from across the world (more information to come in the next couple of weeks) but we […]

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Quantumcyte: Cancer Just Got Personal

β€œI never intended on even giving a crap about cancer. It just happened,” said John Butler. β€œThis isn’t a matter of me wanting to […]

How are mentors compensated?

Mentors work with IndieBio companies on a voluntary basis. We seek to create an enriching environment for early stage life sciences companies and appreciate […]

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Inso Biosciences: A Genomic Solution

Inso Bio is solving the biggest bottleneck in genomic analysis: DNA extraction. This process currently takes highly skilled scientists several hours to complete, which […]

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Philipp Sander

Philipp is an Investment Analyst with the IndieBio San Francisco office focusing on finding the best therapeutics and human health companies and nurturing a […]

Founder Story

DNALite: A New Age of Medicine Is Emerging

What if instead of undergoing life-altering chemotherapy or surgery, a patient could take a daily pill to fight cancer? That’s the ultimate vision of […]

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BioROSA: Early Blood Test for Autism

BioROSA is building a blood-based test for diagnosing autism. Autism currently is diagnosed at age four, on average, with behavioral testing. Children are missing […]

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IndieBio NY’s Demo Day Kickoff Video

SOSV’s IndieBio NY just held a demo day at its offices in Manhattan. Fifteen spectacular deep tech founders tackling human and planetary health took […]

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Lypid: Making vegan fat perform like animal fat

Making plant-based foods without compromise. Lypid’s secret sauce: a sustainable, healthy and tastier fat alternative. We’ve had an on again, off again relationship with […]

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The Story of Fire, Stone, and Biology

It was the Titan, Prometheus, who created man. Prometheus glanced down on the Earth and noticed that rainwater was making nature live, without it […]

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IndieBio’s 15 Latest Biotech Startups

Today, we stand on the brink of the fourth industrial revolution which fuses the physical, digital and biological spheres of technology that will fundamentally […]

Founder Story

Climate Crop: Small Edit, Big Impact

Photosynthesis wastes sunlight. Many scientific efforts are underway to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis to increase yields. None of these efforts have translated from […]

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Joe Hurd

Joe is an Operating Partner with SOSV, leading commercialization, go-to-market, and corporate engagement efforts for a number of SOSV’s key portfolio companies. In this […]

What is the time commitment?

Mentors can choose their desired level of commitment. The IndieBio team keeps mentors abreast of upcoming events in your area and looks to facilitate […]

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Liberum: Automating Protein Production

When we think of synthetic biology, we often think of synthetic DNA. However, the purpose of the DNA is often to make protein. Today […]

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Proteinea: The bug IS the feature

Proteinea turns insect larvae into biofactories. Instead of cell-based biomanufacturing, their next-generation platform uses mass-reared insect larvae as fast growing, mini-biofactories to produce recombinant […]

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TΓ΄mtex: Designing the Material Revolution

Bio-based materials are the future, and TΓ΄mtex is designing the petrochemical-free revolution. The New York-based startup has garnered awards from design schools and fashion […]

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Ria Health

Tech-enabled telehealth practice providing treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
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Alan Clayton

Alan Clayton has served as the SOSV β€œRoaming Mentor” since 2011, and works directly with teams across all SOSV programs. Building the human capital […]

Demo Days

IndieBio San Francisco Class 11 Demo Day

Thank you so much to everyone who attended San Francisco’s Demo Day (virtually). We are so excited to present 13 companies who are impacting […]

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Microgenesis

Restore your fertility biome to restore your fertility potential
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Bosque Foods

Bosque Foods is creating the next generation of meat alternatives, grown naturally from fungi.
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Nukoko

Cocoa-Free Chocolate
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Free to Feed

Helping parents navigate food allergies
Founder Story

JointechLabs: Point-of-Care Cell Therapy

Stem cells have been a key source of innovation in regenerative medicine, because they possess the ability to self-renew. Adult stem cells are found […]

Founder Story

Pheronym: Pesticide-Free Food for the World

It’s no secret that the agricultural fertilizers and pesticides create major problems in our soil, water systems, animal life, and more. Thankfully there are […]

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Introducing SOSV’s Ireland Biomanufacturing Fund

SOSV recently got some press in Ireland about a new, specialized fund that we established to support what our general partner Po Bronson sees as the β€œsecond wave” of industrial biomanufacturing.

Founder Story

Beeline Therapeutics: Supercharging T-regs

Beeline takes engineered immune cell therapy in a new direction. They are unique in how they have engineered regulatory T cells (Tregs), which play […]

Founder Story

Lingrove: Wood Without Trees

As humans, we love the aesthetically pleasing look of wood. It’s a beautiful material, but our planet is being harmed by the massive rates […]

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Announcing IndieBio Summer 2017 Class!

IndieBio is incredibly excited to announce our fifth class of life science companies. Founders have come to San Francisco from all over the world, […]

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Ivy Natal: Turning Skin Cells into Eggs

The future of our species depends on procreation, but today the world is at an all-time high in infertility due to disease, stress, and […]

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Reimagining the Future with Biology

Today, Bolt Threads, previously Refactored Materials announced that they’d raised $40M in their latest round of financing and expect to have their yeast derived […]

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Carbix: Turning CO2 into Stone

To meet the challenge of our climate crisis requires humanity to reinvent industries on a global scale. Eliminating emissions as fast as possible is […]

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Cayuga: Treating All Forms of Bleeding

Cayuga Biotech is a preclinical therapeutics company whose lead compound, CAY001, shows promise to change the way that severe bleeding episodes are treated. We […]

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Zymochem

Sustainable Materials using patented Carbon-Conserving (C2) microbes.
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On Conscious Leadership: Tim Chang

Tim Chang personifies a new breed of leadership in the venture-entrepreneur economy. He’s part of a rising alternative to the tech-bro culture that operates […]

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β€œThe $100 Trillion Opportunity”

Arvind Gupta, Managing Director & Founder of IndieBio: Meeting the challenge of climate change is commonly characterized as a tradeoff with industrial economic growth. […]

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Kutanios

Defending skin against environmental and aging-related damage
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Karma Biotechnologies

LNP technology that can deliver both DNA and RNA payloads to solid tumor microenvironments
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Sean O’Sullivan

After Sean O’Sullivan’s first startup went public in 1994, he founded SOSV in 1995 as a β€œsuper angel.” In 2007, based off the success […]

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The SOSV Human Health 100

IndieBio is part of SOSV, and one of our core missions is human health. The other is planetary health – or climate. Recently we […]

Founder Story

An Interview with John Mendelson of DxRx

“Rehab on Your Phone” Photo: John Mendelson (center) and the DxRx team. Not everyone who occasionally overdrinks is seen as an alcoholic in need […]

Giraffe Bio

The global transition to net-zero emissions hinges on the mining of critical minerals, yet copper and lithium production, projected to grow 30% and 465% […]

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BiomeSense

Longitudinal microbiome sampling.
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IndieBio Call for Applications

SOSV Announces Launch of IndieBio New York — World’s leading life sciences accelerator expands to New York City —— Call for Applications Open Now […]

Founder Story

Microgenesis: Restoring the Fertility Biome

Through the development of a simple swab-based test combined with personalized nutraceutical solutions, Microgenesis is helping women facing fertility challenges forge a path to […]

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Reactosome

The synthetic nucleus company
Demo Days

Announcing IndieBio 2021 Demo Days

Announcing IndieBio Demo Days: Two days to showcase the IndieBio classes and the amazing work accomplished throughout the four-month IndieBio program. Rewatch IndieBio New […]

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Nat4Bio

Mimicking Nature to preserve our Food & Environment
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Unexpected Biotech

New York biotechnology is building the world of tomorrow and improving human and planetary health. IndieBio NY hosted “Unexpected Biotech: Innovative Technologies Emerging from […]

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Announcing IndieBio’s 4th Class!

IndieBio is excited to announce our newest class of thirteen biotech startups. These companies are bringing innovation to a host of industries, from classical […]

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Kyomei: Empowering Plant-Based Proteins with Flavor

Alternatives to animal protein include plant-based, fermentation-based, and cellular agriculture-based options – but all suffer from a lack of true β€˜meatiness.’ Kyomei is using […]

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Capro-X

Biorefining building blocks for everyday life
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Hugh Bowen

Hugh Bowen is an Associate working with SOSV’s portfolio in Europe. He works with startups across industries including some of the former RebelBio companies […]

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Po Bronson

β€œCoach Po” is Managing Director of IndieBio and General Partner at SOSV, the venture firm that backs IndieBio. Po was a finance and tech […]

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Selin Altinok

Selin joins our teams as an Investment Analyst with the IndieBio NY team where she will be conducting due diligence for both new and […]

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Alex Hall-Daniels

Alex Hall-Daniels is the Principal at IndieBio New York. He leads operations and logistics for IndieBio staff and portfolio companies. Prior to joining IndieBio, […]

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Introducing IndieBio Class Seven

At IndieBio, we are on a mission to turn scientists into entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Biology as a technology has now […]