Kinomica

Kinomica

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Private Company

Total funding raised: $12.5M

Overview

Kinomica is a private, pre-revenue diagnostics company leveraging its proprietary KScan® phosphoproteomic platform to guide cancer treatment decisions. By mapping the active signaling networks in a tumor, the platform aims to answer critical clinical questions about optimal therapy selection and drug repurposing for non-responders. The company is led by a seasoned team with expertise in biotech entrepreneurship, diagnostics strategy, and mass spectrometry, positioning it to address a significant gap in functional precision oncology.

Oncology

Technology Platform

KScan®, a phosphoproteomic diagnostic platform using mass spectrometry to map activated signaling pathways in patient tumors to guide therapy selection and drug repurposing.

Funding History

2
Total raised:$12.5M
Series A$10M
Seed$2.5M

Opportunities

The significant proportion of cancer patients who do not respond to genomically-guided therapies creates a major unmet need for functional diagnostics like KScan®.
The platform also offers a pathway for pharmaceutical companies to repurpose existing drugs by mechanistically matching them to new patient populations based on pathway activation.

Risk Factors

Key risks include the failure to demonstrate clear clinical utility and cost-effectiveness in rigorous trials, the operational challenge of scaling a complex mass spectrometry-based assay, and intense competition from established genomic profiling companies and other multi-omic startups.

Competitive Landscape

Kinomica competes with large, entrenched genomic profiling companies (e.g., Foundation Medicine) and a growing field of multi-omic and functional diagnostic startups. Its differentiation lies in its exclusive focus on phosphoproteomics to provide a dynamic, functional readout of pathway activation, a layer of biology not captured by DNA or RNA sequencing alone.