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Venture Capital News: Kanvas Biosciences Inks $12M Series A Round

2023-06-22
PRINCETON, NJ, Kanvas Biosciences, the leader in microbiome mapping technology, announced today a $12 million Pre-Series A funding round.
The investment will be used to further advance the company's proprietary platform technology, which promises to revolutionize drug development for microbiome-associated diseases. The round was led by DCVC with participation from Lions Capital LLC, Cooke LLC, Uncommon Denominator, and Triple Impact Capital. As part of the investment round, Jason Pontin, partner at DCVC, will join the company's board of directors.

Kanvas Biosciences is building the world's first microbiome drug screening and drug discovery platform to accelerate live biotherapeutic product (LBP) development. Leveraging its unparalleled ability to spatially map the microbiome and profile host-gene expression at single-cell resolution, the company is constructing the most comprehensive and robust microbiome data resource for future drug development. Kanvas Biosciences' technology was initially developed at Cornell University and exclusively licensed.
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