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
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Chief Executive Officer
invented KAREL. Formerly an IBM PhD fellow & currently a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley
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Anil NarasimhaChief Scientific Officer
PhD, 12 years of R&D at UC San Diego, Berkeley & Stanford
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Greg SittersOperations
, 21 years in Executive positions at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. 15 years in VC technology investing;
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Mark WebbVP of Engineering
B.S in Chemistry from Berkeley. >10 years of R&D experience including at Berkeley Lab and NIST.
Advisors
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Dr. Irving WeissmanUnconfirmedLouise KirkbrideUnconfirmed
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Darren CookeUnconfirmedAaron NelsonUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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National Science Foundation I-CorpsUnconfirmedNew Zealand GovernmentUnconfirmed
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Seth BindernagelUnconfirmedNational Institutes of HealthUnconfirmedLawrence Berkeley National Labs (US DOE)Unconfirmed
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