WARP DRIVE BIO, LLC

Biotech · Acquired

Natural product genome mining platform to discover novel beta-lactam antibiotics from actinomycete gene clusters

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Grants
$1.4M
7 awards
Sector median: 1
Raised
—
No Form D on record
Contracts
—
No federal contracts on record
Patents
12
5 granted · 7 pending
Sector median: 2

Capital Timeline

Federal above the line · equity below · node area scaled to amount
Capital and federal award history
DateEventSourceAmount
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Development of a Novel, Specific, and Sensitive Mass Spectrometry-Based Protein-Ligand Binding Assay to Discover Novel Beta-Lactam Antibiotics$225,000
Federal grant· 1 of 2 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Genome Mining the Full Diversity of the Actinomycete Biosynthetic Universe for Neomorph Antibiotic Discovery$225,000
Federal grant· 2 of 2 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Genome Mining the Full Diversity of the Actinomycete Biosynthetic Universe for Neomorph Antibiotic Discovery$225,000
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Harnessing Genomic Information to Engineer Combinatorial Biosynthesis of a Large Polyketide Natural Products Library$209,559
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Harnessing Genomic Information to Engineer Combinatorial Biosynthesis of a Large Polyketide Natural Products Library$209,559
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · New Approaches to Mining the Complete Actinomycete Genome to Discover Novel Beta-Lactam Antibiotics$154,588
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · New Approaches to Mining the Complete Actinomycete Genome to Discover Novel Beta Lactam Antibiotics$154,588
Federal grant · SBIR/STTR

Peer position

Biotech · 4373 companies · ranked on federal contract value
Biotech companies ranked by federal contract value
#CompanyContractsDisclosed equity
3022Nitrase Therapeutics——
3023EASCRA BIOTECH, INC.——
3024Draig Therapeutics——
3025WARP DRIVE BIO, LLC——
3026Artios——
3027Montai Therapeutics——
3028Parabricks Inc.——

Ranked on federal contract value rather than capital raised. The equity column is the comparison worth making — companies at the same procurement position often sit at very different points in their funding history.

Patents

USPTO · 5 granted of 12

Regulatory activity · Biotech

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