Our Story

We are scientists, engineers, and clinical manufacturing experts working relentlessly to scale Regenerative Medicines to millions of patients. We noticed these therapies were showing they could cure Parkinson's, blindness, even spinal cord injury - and yet most patients would never be able to afford or get access to them, because they're produced manually. So we decided to fix that with automated production.

Six years ago, we started automating production of stem cell derived cells such as heart and brain tissue for R&D use in the largest US Pharma companies (including 3 of top 20) - and we've taken our iDEM automated technology through 6 generations of refinement and iteration since.

Now, we're building and operating fully automated cell manufacturing sites to scale production of Regenerative Medicines at low cost to millions of patients.

We've raised over $24M, including from founders of multibillion dollar companies like Wayve, Dropbox, Segment, and Mercury - and execs from companies like Sana, BMS, and Revolut. What we've done so far will be game-changing for patients, and we still have plenty more to build and do.

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Collaborations With industry leaders
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Employees Company size
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Advisors Industry leaders
2016
Founded in London, England

Our Leadership

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Ali Afshar

CEO

First designed lab robots during PhD, and previously started a hardware company. Sits at the intersection of science, engineering, and business. YCombinator alumnus and Forbes 30 Under 30.
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Ignacio Willats

CEO

Enterprise sales and product experience at multiple startups. Leads sales, with a deep focus on the customer. YCombinator alumnus and Forbes 30 Under 30.
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Justin Chan

Head of Engineering

Multidisciplinary hardware engineer, experienced in new product development. Former New Categories R&D engineer at Dyson, and built robotic kitchens at Deliveroo.

Our Advisors

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David DiGusto

Manufacturing Advisor

Former CTO of Resilience with over 35 years of cell therapy asset development experience. Designed and built over 10 GMP facilities, and led Semma Therapeutics to a successful exit to Vertex.
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Barry Oliver

Interim Head of Quality

Over 20 years' manufacturing experience across the global CDMO sector. A qualified QP, RP, and Controlled Drug Authorised Person, has led corporate quality, compliance, and operational teams for clinical and commercial manufacturing at the likes of Catalent and FujiFilm Diosynth.
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Ian Felix

Manufacturing Advisor

Over 40 years of experience bringing products from prototype through manufacture, including at Apple, IBM, and 7 medical devices at different startups. Currently COO at Lassen Peak.
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Andy Holt

Commercial Advisor

Over 18 years of commercial leadership in cell and gene therapy CDMOs. Chief Commercial Officer at Viralgen. Previously led commercial teams at AskBio, Ncardia, Lonza, and MilliporeSigma.
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Lauren Schwartz

Sales Advisor

A seasoned sales leader. Head of Strategic Sales at Anthropic and Founding Partner at 20SALES. Previously VP of Enterprise Sales at Fivetran and a senior leader at Segment.
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Paddy Lambros

People Advisor

An expert in People and Recruiting. Built the team at Improbable as Talent Acquisition Lead from 65 to 650 people, then led Sensat as Head of People and Talent from 20 before Series A to over 90 post Series B.
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Ahmed Badr

Legal Advisor

COO at GoCardless. Joined in 2015 and helped take the company from Series B to G — 40 to 1,000 people and past $100M revenue. A lawyer by trade, and tech geek by nature.
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Heather Miksch

Operations Advisor

Over 25 years of experience at tech startups, with leadership roles at Velocity11 (acquired by Agilent Technology), Carbon, Inc. (an industrial 3D printing company), and Canvas Construction. Currently COO at Villa Homes, a technology-backed home builder.

Our Team

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Stephen Weston

Biology Lead
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Jordina Casanova Vilar

Senior Scientist
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Rebecca Powell

Scientist
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Sarah Pokorny

Scientist
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James Cunningham

Hardware Engineering Manager
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Pierre Lin

Staff Mechanical Engineer
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Felix Russell

Senior Mechanical Engineer
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Rob Melling

Senior Mechanical Engineer
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Flynn Marshall

Mechanical Engineer
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Giorgos Karatziolas

Senior Electronics Engineer
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Joseph Lukies

Engineering Technician
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James Ward

Electronics Engineer
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Kate Bassil

Junior Mechanical Engineer
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Alex McAuley

Junior Mechanical Engineer
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Herbie Christophers

Junior Mechanical Engineer
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Jarrod Greenwood

Junior Manufacturing Engineer
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Alexandra Fagan

Engineering Technician
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Henry Miskin

Staff Software Engineer
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Tom Brooks

Senior Software Engineer
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Henry Munro

Senior Software Engineer
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Henry Lake

Senior Software Engineer
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Ben Wilson

Software Engineer
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George Yarnley

Software Engineer
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Milo Dundas

Operations Manager
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Michael Herridge

Engineering Technician
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Tom Bartlett

Engineering Technician
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Dr. Xian Weng

Director of Product

Our Investors

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