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Emulate

Biotech & Life Sciences · Boston, United States · Founded 2014

A privately held company that creates advanced in vitro models for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health MoreLess

Emulate Bio is a biotechnology startup that operates in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. The company specializes in the development and application of Organ-on-a-Chip technology, a cutting-edge tool that simulates human biology more accurately than traditional animal and spheroid models. This technology is designed to improve the success rate of clinical trials, enhance patient safety, and boost research and development productivity.

Emulate Bio's primary clients are researchers and pharmaceutical companies who are developing new drug therapies. The company provides them with a user-friendly platform that includes instruments, consumables, and software in a flexible, open format. This platform allows researchers to gain a deeper understanding of human biology, which in turn helps them to develop safer and more effective drugs.

The company's business model revolves around selling their Organ-on-a-Chip technology and related products to researchers and pharmaceutical companies. They also generate revenue by publishing research articles, such as their recent publication on integrating Liver-Chip data into drug safety assessments. This publication provides a framework that researchers can use to identify drug-induced liver injury risk, thereby improving the safety and efficiency of drug development workflows.

In summary, Emulate Bio is a promising startup that leverages advanced biotechnology to improve drug development processes, with the ultimate goal of enhancing human health and saving lives.

Keywords: Biotechnology, Organ-on-a-Chip Technology, Drug Development, Clinical Trials, Patient Safety, Research and Development, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthcare, Liver-Chip Data, Human Emulation System.

Company overview

Emulate company information

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Status
Operational
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Boston, United States
Employees
73
Open positions
5
Dealroom signal
68.1
client focusb2bsub industryBioTechnologybusiness modelManufacturingsectorTestingindustryHealthsectorBiotechnologysectorMicrofluidicssectorSpinoutsectorBiotech and Pharmasectormedical testingsectororgan-on-chipsectorDT and LSsectorscience-based

Valuation & funding

Emulate funding history

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
SERIES FOther financing Mar 2024 $47M $410M Qiming Venture Partners
SERIES EOther financing Sep 2021 $82M $328M Perceptive Advisors · Northpond Ventures
SERIES DOther financing Mar 2020 Alumni Ventures · Northpond Ventures · Founders Fund
DEBTDebt Mar 2020 $19M Alumni Ventures
LATE VCOther financing Aug 2019 $28M $112M Almanack Investment Partners
SERIES COther financing Jun 2018 Starlight Ventures · ALS Investment Fund · Founders Fund · SciFi VC
GRANTOther financing Jun 2017 National Institutes of Health
SERIES BOther financing Oct 2016 ATEL Ventures · OS Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Techammer
SERIES BOther financing Mar 2016 ATEL Ventures · Techammer · LabCorp · OS Fund
SERIES AOther financing Jul 2014 +ND Capital
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Growth signals

Emulate website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Emulate is 40K monthly website visits, down 11.1% over the last three months. Emulate's team declined 6.4% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits40K 3-month web change-11.1% 1-year team growth-6.4%
Monthly website visits120 observations · Apr 2016–Jul 2026
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Comparisons

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Talent graph

Emulate's talent

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Team profiled 28 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 3 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Investors

19 investors on Emulate's cap table

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Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
National Institutes of Health
Series A 7 investors entered at this stage
+ND Capital
ATEL Ventures
Techammer
LabCorp
OS Fund
Hansjörg Wyss
ALS Finding a Cure
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
Founders Fund
Starlight Ventures
ALS Investment Fund
SciFi VC
Almanack Investment Partners
Alumni Ventures
Northpond Ventures
Perceptive Advisors
Qiming Venture Partners
Other known 2 additional known investors
Harvard University
Wyss Institute

Global footprint

Where Emulate has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
4 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States93%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.5%
🇨🇳 China1.8%
🇩🇪 Germany1.8%
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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Emulate

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