AP News / EIN Presswire · Feb 2026
Abalone Bio and Mount Sinai announced peer-reviewed preclinical data on first publicly reported functional characterization of CB2 activating antibody agonists, AB120 and AB150.
We create activating antibodies to treat diseases others can’t.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Abalone Bio is a private biotechnology company using engineered biology and machine learning to discover and design target-activating antibodies for hard-to-drug membrane proteins, especially GPCRs.
Primary product
FAST (Functional Antibody Selection Technology) platform for discovering and designing activating antibody therapeutics
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Emeryville, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Antibody drug discovery / therapeutic biotechnology
Offices
0 jobs at Abalone Bio
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$9.1M
Latest round
Seed · Jan 2022
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Chief Scientific Officer
VP of Antibody Discovery
Lauren Schwimmer
VP of Preclinical Development
Sameer Soi
VP of Data Science & AI
Nathan Caffo
Board Member
Neil Berkley
Board Member
Richard Shen
Board Member
Founders
Gustavo Pesce
Co-founder, Founding CSO
The company emphasizes kindness, kaizen, and ambition, and describes itself as highly collaborative and fun.
Compensation
Public job posts mention competitive salary, stock options, and equity, plus insurance and 401K match; no public salary bands were found.
Benefits
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to combine internal drug development with partnership/collaboration revenue.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$0-$1M
AP News / EIN Presswire · Feb 2026
Abalone Bio and Mount Sinai announced peer-reviewed preclinical data on first publicly reported functional characterization of CB2 activating antibody agonists, AB120 and AB150.
EIN Presswire · Jan 2026
Abalone Bio announced a collaboration with Pfizer applying its FAST platform to discover GPCR activity-modulating antibodies for an undisclosed target.
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Company LinkedIn post announcing the Pfizer research collaboration using FAST.
LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Company post advertising Emeryville hiring and mentioning competitive pay, equity, and 401k match.
EIN Presswire · Mar 2025
Abalone Bio announced a collaboration with UPenn to develop antibody-based obesity drugs leveraging its functional antibody discovery platform.