Adaptyv

We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering

adaptyvbio.com

HQ: Lausanne, VD, Switzerland

11-50

Healthcare

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 28, 2026

Overview

Adaptyv Bio is a Swiss biotechnology company operating an automated cloud laboratory for protein designers. It closes the design–test–learn loop by synthesizing, expressing, purifying and experimentally characterizing AI-designed proteins, returning structured data in roughly three weeks. The platform is used for therapeutic proteins, enzymes and functional materials.

Primary product

Adaptyv Cloud Lab / Foundry: an online, API-accessible wet-lab platform for ordering and analyzing protein expression, binding and thermostability experiments.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Lausanne / Épalinges, Switzerland (Biopôle Life Science Campus, Route de la Corniche 5, 1066 Épalinges)

Team size

30–40 (public LinkedIn-derived estimate in July 2026; YC reported 25 in April 2023)

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Biotechnology Research

Sub-industry

AI-enabled protein engineering, automated laboratories and cloud laboratory services

Offices

Lausanne / Épalinges, Switzerland

Business model

Per-protein paid experimental services

Cloud-lab / research-service model

API access to wet-lab infrastructure

Potential enterprise or custom assay services

Funding

Stage

Seed / generating revenue

Total raised

$11.2M

Latest round

Seed · Sep 2025

Latest amount

$8M

Seed

Sep 2025 · ACE Ventures

$8M

Seed VC - III

Feb 2025 · ACE Ventures

$8M

Seed VC - II

Jan 2024

Pre-seed

Feb 2022 · Wingman Ventures

$2.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Julian Englert

Co-founder and CEO

Daniel Nakhaee-Zadeh Gutierrez

Co-founder; Operations / CTO reported by YC

Robert Kaptur

Lab Automation Engineer; listed on the current team page

Gerard Antoun

Lab Automation Engineer; listed on the current team page

Sam Burns

Senior Laboratory Automation Engineer; listed on the current team page

Marylou Favre

Biology team

Odeta Bondarevaite

Biology team

Paul Prevel

Software team

Founders

Amir Shahein

Co-Founder and CSO (former)

Moustafa Houmani

Co-Founder and CTO

Investors

Work & culture

The careers page emphasizes data-driven engineering, first-principles thinking, action orientation, strong work ethic and cross-disciplinary collaboration among molecular biology, lab automation, software engineering and machine learning teams.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

No reliable public salary bands or equity terms were found. Public job pages expose roles but not compensation; visa sponsorship is likewise not confirmed.

Benefits

Lausanne-based, hybrid and remote options appear across job postings

Roles spanning biology, software, AI, lab automation, operations and business development

International/distributed hiring across multiple European countries is indicated

Product & market

Pricing

Transparent per-protein pricing starting at approximately $149 per protein, including two replicates; additional/custom assays and API/enterprise usage may be separately quoted.

Differentiators

—Fully automated wet-lab infrastructure rather than software-only protein design
—Sequence-to-experimental-data turnaround advertised at under three weeks
—Structured, clean experimental data designed for AI training and iteration
—Programmatic API with cost estimates, experiment creation and JSON results
—Benchling Direct Ordering integration
—Combines gene synthesis, expression, purification and characterization in one workflow

Technology

Automated liquid-handling and laboratory robotics

Gene synthesis

Cell-free / synthetic biology workflows

Protein expression and purification

BLI binding-affinity characterization

Thermostability assays

AI-assisted protein design and closed-loop experimentation

Python

PyTorch

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Arduino / Raspberry Pi

Benchling integration

REST/API and JSON data access

Customers

BindCraft

Cradle

Microsoft Research

Chai Discovery

Escalante

Tamarind Bio

Phylo

More than 30 organizations in 2025, including pharma companies, frontier AI labs and seed-stage techbio startups

Competitors

Scala Biodesign

Turbine

Biomatter

Arzeda

64x Bio

ATUM

Creative BioMart

BioLegend

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $1M–$10M annually; third-party estimates range from about $1M to $2.6M, so this is directional rather than company-reported.

Estimated monthly visits

15.6K

support@adaptyvbio.com

Signals & risks

Other

Sep 2025

The company publicly launched its platform out of beta after reporting an $8M seed round; the launch also implies a transition from beta-stage product to scaled commercial operations.

Source

Other

Sep 2025

The latest financing is reported as an $8M seed round, with plans to expand infrastructure, assays and team; no public layoff, acquisition or shutdown evidence was found.

Source

Latest news

Test proteins with Adaptyv directly from Benchling

Adaptyv Bio · May 2026

Adaptyv announced a Benchling Direct Ordering integration for expression, binding and thermostability assays.

Adaptyv API: Giving everyone access to a real lab

Adaptyv Bio · Apr 2026

Adaptyv released an API for catalogue queries, experiment creation, cost estimates and structured JSON results; Tamarind Bio and Phylo are cited as integrations.

Adaptyv raises $8M to accelerate AI-powered protein validation

Greater Geneva Bern area · Oct 2025

Coverage describes the Lausanne-area company’s automated design-test-learn platform, prior CHF2.5M pre-seed financing and planned assay, automation and API expansion.

ACE Ventures leads $8M seed round in Adaptyv Bio

ACE Ventures · Sep 2025

The round included byFounders, Founderful, LongGame and angels; the company reported more than 30 organizations using the platform and over 10,000 proteins tested in 2025.

Adaptyv Bio launches its cloud lab for protein designers

Adaptyv Bio · Sep 2025

Adaptyv announced public availability of its cloud lab after beta, alongside news of an $8M seed round led by ACE Ventures.

Jobs and careers at Adaptyv

34 jobs at Adaptyv

Software Engineer, Backend

Remote

Software

Lausanne; Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

3w ago

Remote

Full-time