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Progenitor Bio · For organic reality

Every lineage starts with one cell.

Progenitor Bio builds companies and products for the future of organic reality. Everything that grows, divides, metabolizes, and evolves.

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Fig. 1A taste-bud organoid growing from stem and progenitor cells, imaged in 3D over 44 hours.
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Section 01 · Organic reality

Food, medicine, materials, ecosystems: much of what we depend on is grown, not made. That is organic reality — everything that grows, divides, metabolizes, and evolves. Working with it still runs on slow, expensive trial and error. Progenitor builds the companies and products that change that, each starting as one idea and growing into its own lineage.

Section 02 · Field notes

This is what organic reality looks like.

Cells dividing, moving, organizing into tissue. Every company we build works with this, at some scale, and every one of them has to be right about it.

Fig. 2Cells (green) moving through living tissue beside a blood vessel (red), two-photon microscopy.
Fig. 3Nuclei (green) inside a growing taste-bud organoid, time-lapse.
Fig. 4An epithelial organoid formed on a nanotextured surface. Nuclei blue, membranes white.
Fig. 5A budding-yeast colony growing, with a fluorescent reporter and traced cell outlines.
Fig. 6The same kind of organoid earlier in its growth.

Section 03 · Differentiation

One cell becomes many.

A progenitor cell divides, and its daughters specialize. Progenitor works the same way: one idea, proven small, grows into a company or product of its own.

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Section 04 · Lineages

Lineage 01 · Computational biology

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Drylab (drylab.app) runs experiments on living cells in software, from yeast to human cell lines.

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Lineage 02

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Lineage 03

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Section 05 · What it is for

Better science, sooner, for everyone.

  1. 01

    Less wasted lab work

    Run the likely winners first. Every experiment we can rule out in software is time, money and material left for the ones that matter.

  2. 02

    Results you can build on

    We say what is checked and what is still theory, on every result, so nobody builds a year of work on a guess.

  3. 03

    Methods anyone can check

    We publish how we test ourselves and what our models leave out, so others can hold us to it, and do better.

  4. 04

    Built for the people doing the science

    Students, small labs and large ones. Clear prices before anything runs, and tools that explain themselves.

Section 06 · How we build

A loop, not a pitch.

Each lineage runs the same loop. It is slow at the start and fast after, because the hard part (being right) is done once and kept.

Read our approach
  1. 01

    Find a hard problem in organic reality

    Something that grows, divides, metabolizes or evolves, where trial and error is still slow and expensive.

  2. 02

    Build it in-house

    A small team inside Progenitor, on shared science and infrastructure, until it works.

  3. 03

    Test it against real data

    Data it never saw. Not a demo, not a benchmark we chose after the fact.

  4. 04

    Label it checked or theory

    Checked if it matched. Theory if it has not been tested, or did not match yet. The label ships with the result.

  5. 05

    Spin it out, or keep it

    A lineage becomes its own company, or stays a product inside Progenitor. Either way it keeps the standards.