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Deep Genomics

AIToronto, ON

Uses an AI foundation-model platform (BioFM, including the BigRNA model) to discover and design RNA and genetic-medicine drug candidates.

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About

Company site: deepgenomics.com

Uses an AI foundation-model platform (BioFM, including the BigRNA model) to discover and design RNA and genetic-medicine drug candidates.

  • Raised $180M Series C financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with CPP Investments and Fidelity among participants (July 2021). deepgenomics.com

  • Entered a preclinical collaboration with BioMarin Pharmaceutical to identify oligonucleotide drug candidates across four rare-disease indications (November 2020). deepgenomics.com

  • Nominated DG12P1, described as the industry's first AI-discovered therapeutic candidate, targeting Wilson disease (September 2019). deepgenomics.com

  • Introduced BigRNA, a roughly 2-billion-parameter transformer foundation model for RNA biology and therapeutic discovery (September 2023). deepgenomics.com

Products & Services

Company site: deepgenomics.com

Products Deep Genomics publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

BioFM Platform

AI drug discovery platform

Enables scalable molecular design and target biology discovery in a way that is reliable, reproducible and correct.

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Funding & Investors

Announced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.

  1. Series C ($180M)

    Jul 28, 2021

    Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund 2, CPP Investments, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Alexandria Venture Investments, Amplitude Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Magnetic Ventures, True Ventures

  2. Series B ($40M)

    Jan 7, 2020

    Investors: Future Ventures, Amplitude Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Magnetic Ventures, True Ventures

  3. Venture round

    Sep 25, 2017

    Investors: Khosla Ventures, True Ventures

Total disclosed: US$13.0MLatest: Series C ($180M) · Jul 28, 2021

Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

BioMarin Pharmaceutical

Preclinical collaboration using Deep Genomics' AI Workbench to identify oligonucleotide drug candidates across four rare disease indications (2020).

Wave Life Sciences

Collaboration to identify splicing-related therapeutic targets for genetic neuromuscular disorders using Deep Genomics' ML platform (2018).

Mila

Talent collaboration: Deep Genomics joined the Mila community to recruit AI, software engineering and RNA biology talent (2021).

People

Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.

Brian O'Callaghan

Chief Executive Officer

Brendan Frey

Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

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