Insitro - vitro models of human disease

 

Insitro

Headquarters: South San Francisco  

Founders: Daphne Koller (CEO)

Funding: $100 million 

Valuation: $135 million, via Pitchbook

Insitro aims to improve the drug discovery process. Founded by machine-learning veteran Daphne Koller, it creates in vitro models of human disease in its automated laboratory and then applies machine-learning models to predict possible effective therapies. It recently announced a partnership with drug maker Gilead Sciences, worth up to $1 billion, to help it find a treatment for a form of liver disease called nonalcoholic steatohepatis, or NASH. 

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