Somite AI Raises $47 Million Led by Khosla Ventures for AI-Driven DeltaStem Platform and Capsule Technology
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Somite AI has raised $47 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from SciFi VC, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Fusion Fund, Ajinomoto Group Ventures, Pitango HealthTech, TechAviv, Harpoon Ventures, and angel investors including Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI. This brings Somite's total funding to about $60 million.
The company is developing DeltaStem, an AI-powered foundation model platform designed to generate any human cell type for any person. DeltaStem uses proprietary capsule technology, developed by co-founder Professor Alon Klein of Harvard, which enables the generation of cell signaling data 1,000 times faster and more efficiently than current methods.
Somite's approach addresses challenges in regenerative medicine and stem cell therapy, including high cost, slow development, and scalability issues. The platform aims to enable the production of mature human cell types at scale, with potential applications for diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Type 1 Diabetes, orthopedic conditions, muscular diseases, and blood disorders.
Founded by CEO Micha Breakstone, Jonathan Rosenfeld, and Professor Alon Klein, Somite's capsule technology allows millions of experiments to be conducted in parallel, efficiently mapping the developmental trajectories of stem cells under varied conditions. The company is currently running experiments at a one-million-condition scale and plans to reach ten million conditions by the end of the year.
Somite positions itself as a TechBio company, focusing on developing broad technology platforms for cell therapy using a data-driven approach.
Traditional cell therapies are expensive, slow to develop, and difficult to scale.
@SomiteAI is building foundation models that systematically solve these challenges, with the potential to not only develop their own pipeline, but reshape the entire field of human cell therapy.
We need more data for ai x science.
@conviction is backing novel data generation ideas (at a scale that supports training big models)
Somite’s “capsules” (via Allon Klein, prof systems bio at Harvard) is one such innovation — 1,000x’ing stem cell differentiation data
We're excited to announce @FusionFundVC 's investment in @SomiteAi 's oversubscribed $47M Series A round alongside @khoslaventures . We look forward to working with CEO @MichaBreakstone as they unlock the healing potential of stem cell therapy.
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“AI models make it easier to explore biological design space, synthetic biology makes it possible to physically implement novel hypotheses, and lab automation is tightening the loop from software to physical feedback.” @matthewjmandel
Biology has become programmable and we’re
Somite is building the blueprints to create any cell type for any person.
We call it DeltaStem, our foundation model for the human cell. Our proprietary capsule technology allows us to generate cell signaling data 1,000x faster and more efficiently than current methods,
We're excited to announce @FusionFundVC 's investment in @SomiteAi 's oversubscribed $47M Series A round alongside @khoslaventures . We look forward to working with CEO @MichaBreakstone as they unlock the healing potential of stem cell therapy.
Read more:
Traditional cell therapies are expensive, slow to develop, and difficult to scale.
@SomiteAI is building foundation models that systematically solve these challenges, with the potential to not only develop their own pipeline, but reshape the entire field of human cell therapy.