Mekonos Inc.

Mekonos is a Silicon Valley Venture-backed chip technology company — designs systems & software to industrialize genome editing factories.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Nanotechnology
  • Location Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2016
  • Employees 4
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website mekonos.com

Company Summary

In our mission to enable industrial scale genome editing for therapeutics and therefore making gene therapies universally affordable, Mekonos is developing a new approach for cell engineering using a proprietary silicon chip technology (KAREL) that delivers molecules into potentially, millions of individual cells. This will see a dramatic breakthrough in the genetic engineering treatment of diseases such as cancers.

Team

  • Chief Executive Officer

    invented KAREL. Formerly an IBM PhD fellow & currently a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley

  • Anil Narasimha
    Chief Scientific Officer

    PhD, 12 years of R&D at UC San Diego, Berkeley & Stanford  

  • Greg Sitters
    Operations

    , 21 years in Executive positions at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. 15 years in VC technology investing;

  • Mark Webb
    VP of Engineering

    B.S in Chemistry from Berkeley. >10 years of R&D experience including at Berkeley Lab and NIST.

Advisors

  • Dr. Irving Weissman
    Unconfirmed
    Louise Kirkbride
    Unconfirmed
  • Darren Cooke
    Unconfirmed
    Aaron Nelson
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • National Science Foundation I-Corps
    Unconfirmed
    New Zealand Government
    Unconfirmed
  • Seth Bindernagel
    Unconfirmed
    National Institutes of Health
    Unconfirmed
    Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (US DOE)
    Unconfirmed

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