3Scan
Company

Last deal

$14M

Amount

Series B

Stage

06.07.2016

Date

3

all rounds

$21.06M

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
3Scan builds robotic microscopy tools and software for large-scale sample analysis and 3D visualizations, turning tissue into data science.

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founded date

01.01.2011

Operating Status

Closed (01.01.2019)

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Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series B

IPO status

Private

Description

Their device combines automation, ML and computer vision to extract spatial data from tissue samples and create detailed 3D representations, enabling researchers to diagnose diseases like cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's effectively. Their data platform allows quantitative image analysis of diseases, opening up the potential for new diagnostic and therapeutic solutions. Founded in San Francisco in 2011, 3Scan's team of engineers, biologists and data-scientists is expanding its work into a suite of digital tools for instant identification and classification of histopathologic features and tissue structures.
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