Pleno Secures $25M in Series B Funding

Pleno, a San Diego, CA-based clinical and multi-omics diagnostics company, raised $25M in Series B funding.

Backers included Deerfield Management, Foresite Capital and Medical Excellence Capital.

Pleno is an early-stage startup company developing the RAPTORTM multi-omic instrument platform to improve biological target detection and enable a broad array of life science applications. The company makes complex multi-omic known-target detection accessible and affordable to everyone through the use of its HypercodingTM technology which simplifies the entire process and enables unprecedented improvements in performance, cost and scale.

Pleno also announced the appointment of Dr. Vik Vaz M.D. as its new chief executive officer. He will serve on its Board of Directors, effective immediately.