Last deal

$68M

Amount

Series A

Stage

11.04.2022

Date

3

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$83.42M

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date founded

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About Company
Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a faster, cleaner, and more accurate way to make DNA.

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founded date

01.05.2018

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Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series A

IPO status

Private

Description

They are using enzymatic DNA synthesis technology, specifically Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT), to control the addition of polymerase and create desired DNA sequences. This approach promises to accelerate innovation in biological research and biotechnology, including therapeutics, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing. Ansa's enzyme-based method aims to replace the current chemical method of DNA manufacturing, which has remained unchanged for 35 years.
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Daniel Arlow
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Daniel Arlow

Dan received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley for his work in Jay Keasling’s lab developing new technologies for the de novo synthesis of DNA. Previously, he was a Scientific Associate at D.E. Shaw Research, where he studied the biophysical properties of G protein-coupled receptors, including how drugs bind and modulate their activity. Dan began his scientific career at MIT, where he earned dual S.B. degrees in Math with Computer Science and Biology, and developed computation tools for the analysis of the regulation of gene expression in Vamsi Mootha’s lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He has co-authored over 20 scientific publications, including papers in Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, and Nature Biotechnology that have been cited over 5,000 times in aggregate, and is a co-inventor of two patents.

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Ansa Biotechnologies
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Daniel Arlow

Sebastian Palluk
Sebastian Palluk

Sebastian Palluk

Sebastian received a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Biomolecular Engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology. His Master's thesis research was a computational investigation of the compatibility of Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT) with reversible Terminator Nucleotides (RTdNTPs) for de novo DNA synthesis. Sebastian joined Lawrence Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute in 2015, where he teamed up with Dan to develop the first demonstration of a practical enzymatic de novo DNA synthesis method, reported in Nature Biotechnology.

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Ansa Biotechnologies
Ansa Biotechnologies

organization founded

1

Sebastian Palluk

Employee Profiles
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Jeremiah Hanes

Jeremiah Hanes

Senior Vice President of Research & Development

Daniel Arlow

Daniel Arlow

CEO & Co-founder

Jared Ellefson

Jared Ellefson

Head of Protein Engineering

Sebastian Palluk

Sebastian Palluk

CTO & Co-founder

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