Nanite, a Boston, MA-based provider of an AI-driven polymer design platform, raised $6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Zetta Venture Partners, with participation from Arkitekt Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of its AI-driven platform.
Co-founded by Thomas Neenan, Sean Kevlahan and Shashi Murthy, Nanite is a non-viral gene delivery company developing programmable polymer nanoparticles for a range of modalities and indications. Its AI-driven platform, SAYER, combines automated polymer synthesis and high-throughput in vivo screening with machine learning to design “programmable” polymer nanoparticles (PNPs) delivering a broad range of genetic cargoes with tissue specificity. The company plans to work with genetic medicine companies and patient advocacy groups to develop fit-for-purpose delivery vehicles across different indications as part of their delivery-as-a-service (DaaS) partnership model.
The team also includes Dr. Shashi Murthy as Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Thomas Neenan as Chief Business Officer as well as Dr. Felipe Oviedo as Head of Machine Learning.