We are a lifesciences products company specializing in building tools and generating insights at the interface of biology, chemistry and engineering. We work extensively in cellular analysis and in understanding how genetic code becomes functional output.
Location: United States, California, San Diego
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $29M
Founders name: Kayj Shannon; Yi Zhang
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Alix Ventu... | alix.vc |
| - | KOFA Healt... | kofahealth... |
| 11.06.2023 | Iaso Ventu... | iasoventur... |
| - | Hawktail M... | hawktail.c... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 13.12.2023 | - | $23M | - |
| 27.12.2021 | Seed | $6M | Alix Ventu... |
Persons 14
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| - | Allisen | Williams | Operations... | linkedin.c... | - | a*******s@... | - |
| - | Kyle | Boland | - | linkedin.c... | - | k*****d@za... | - |
| - | Chris | Kilcoin | Director, ... | linkedin.c... | - | c******n@z... | - |
| - | Michael | Miller | Scientist | linkedin.c... | - | m*****r@za... | - |
| - | Peter | Nestler | - | linkedin.c... | - | p******r@z... | - |
| - | Ravi | Ramenani | Director, ... | linkedin.c... | - | r*******i@... | - |
| - | Kayj | Shannon | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | k******n@z... | - |
| - | Martin | Smrcina | Associate ... | linkedin.c... | - | m******a@z... | - |
| - | Kandaswamy... | Vijayan | Chief Exec... | linkedin.c... | - | s******n@z... | - |
| - | Berit | Lankhorst | - | linkedin.c... | - | b********t... | - |
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Mentions in press and media 4
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| 04.02.2025 | Zafrens Raises Further Funding | Zafrens, a San Diego, CA-based biotech drug discovery company, added imec.xpand to its Series A syndicate, bringing the total capital raised to USD 31m. imec.xpand was joined by existing investors Prime Movers Lab, Kofa Healthcare, and Glob... |
| 13.12.2023 | Zafrens Raises $23M in Financing | Z-Screen links functional and omics responses of cells to various perturbations at ultra-high throughput (Graphic: Business Wire) Zafrens, a San Diego, CA-based multi-modality drug discovery company, raised $23M in funding. The round was le... |
| 11.12.2023 | Zafrens Closes $23M Financing | SAN DIEGO, CA, Zafrens has secured a $23M funding led by Prime Movers Lab. >> Click here for more funding data on Zafrens >> To export Zafrens funding data to PDF and Excel, click here Zafrens has secured a $23M funding l... |
| 11.12.2023 | Zafrens closes a $23M deal to optimize applications for their Z-screen platform and advance their internal pipeline | - |