Mithril Medicine
Mithril Medicine was a one-person biotech founded by Cody Tranbarger with Atlas Venture backing, developing antibody therapies for two rare muscular dystrophies (LAMA2-CMD and alpha-dystroglycanopathy).
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Mithril Medicine was a one-person biotech founded by Cody Tranbarger with Atlas Venture backing, developing antibody therapies for two rare muscular dystrophies (LAMA2-CMD and alpha-dystroglycanopathy). Using Claude to coordinate contracts, logistics and experiments across 11 external labs, it took one program from idea to promising mouse results in under 18 months.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Mithril Medicine
Mithril Medicine was a one-person biotech founded by Cody Tranbarger with Atlas Venture backing, developing antibody therapies for two rare muscular dystrophies (LAMA2-CMD and alpha-dystroglycanopathy). Using Claude to coordinate contracts, logistics and experiments across 11 external labs, it took one program from idea to promising mouse results in under 18 months.
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United States
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AI-driven antibody drug discovery platform (agentic drug discovery, closed loop of AI-native protein engineering and high-throughput functional assays).
— - Electra Therapeutics
Develops antibody drugs targeting SIRP. Lead program ipsoprubart (formerly ELA026) is a pan-SIRP monoclonal antibody in the registrational Phase 2/3 SURPASS trial in sHLH and has received FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation; second program ELA822 is a SIRPγ-specific antibody for chronic T cell-mediated immune disorders, with a Phase 1 trial launched in Europe in August 2026
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$215MValuation $865M
China
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Lab automation: the Keystone™ benchtop all-in-one system combines culturing, intervention and microscopy imaging into uninterrupted multi-day cell/organoid experiments and uses AI vision to identify, count and track cells, generating structured experimental data for AI drug discovery
— - AIPher
AI-native drug discovery: proprietary drug foundation models and AI agent engine for early discovery of novel small-molecule, peptide and other drugs
Angel · 2026-09
— - ATLATL Innovation Center
R&D infrastructure and incubation for early-stage biopharma: shared labs, resident scientists and project management, GMP process optimization, preclinical pharmacology and toxicology, plus an AI drug screening module, for biopharma startups, university and institute spinout teams and multinational pharma
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Europe
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In-house automated wet lab generating large-scale single-cell perturbation data to train "AI virtual cell" models that predict human cell responses to drugs and genetic changes
Seed · 2026-10
— - Turbine
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Series B · $25M · 2026-03
$25M - Isomorphic Labs
AI-driven drug design platform (IsoDDE engine): uses AlphaFold-based technology to predict protein structures and design new drug molecules; builds its own therapeutic pipeline and conducts joint R&D with large pharmaceutical companies
Series B · $2.7B · 2026-05
$2.7B
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Galux
AI plus physics-based protein/antibody design platform (GaluxDesign) for drug discovery
Series B · $58M · 2026-02
$58M - Miles Wang 新公司
Develops AI models for drug discovery
— - Halmos Labs
AI-driven automated R&D systems for biotech and pharma that simulate experimental outcomes before wet-lab work and recommend the experiments that most reduce uncertainty
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M&A deals
- 2026-10TargetAnthropicAcqui-hire