64x Bio
Private Company
Total funding raised: $59M
Overview
64x Bio is a private, platform-based biotech company founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco. The company's mission is to solve the critical manufacturing scalability challenges facing advanced therapies like gene and cell therapies through its proprietary VectorSelect™ platform. This platform combines high-throughput genetic screening and computational biology to systematically engineer production cell lines for higher yield and efficiency. 64x Bio operates a B2B business model, offering both licensed products (like its AAV Apex Suite) and custom optimization services to biopharma partners and CDMOs.
Technology Platform
VectorSelect™ platform: an integrated system using massively parallelized genetic screens, computational biology (Cell Map), and process optimization to engineer high-yield production cell lines for biologics, viral vectors, and advanced therapies.
Funding History
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Competitive Landscape
64x Bio competes in the cell line engineering and bioprocess optimization space. Competitors include large life science tools companies (e.g., Thermo Fisher, Sartorius) with media and process solutions, and other synthetic biology startups focused on strain/cell line engineering. Its differentiation lies in the scale of its parallel screening and its integrated computational Cell Map designed specifically for therapeutic production.