Kilobaser filed for insolvency after a failed financing round and weak U.S. expansion; the article reported 19 employees and about 30 creditors.
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Kilobaser is an Austrian life-science hardware company that makes plug-and-play benchtop DNA/RNA synthesizers and related consumables so labs can produce custom oligos, probes, and modified nucleic acids on demand. Public sources also show a 2023 insolvency event followed by a 2024 asset-sale restart and continued operations from Graz.
Primary product
Kilobaser One-XT benchtop DNA/RNA synthesizer
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Graz, Austria
Team size
1-10
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
DNA/RNA synthesis hardware
Offices
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Business model
Stage
post-bankruptcy asset sale
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Asset Sale · Jan 2024
Leadership
Founder & CSO
Co-Founder & CTO
Head of Sales
After Sales Manager
International Communications Manager
Development Engineer
Investors
Biohacker-founded and product-driven, with public company values centered on independence, reliability, competence, support, curiosity, agility, and honesty. The company’s messaging emphasizes democratizing DNA/RNA synthesis and making in-house production simple for researchers.
Pricing
Quote-based direct hardware sales with consumables; add-on installation, warranty, and sample/validation services.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
under $1M (public estimate: ~$285K)
Estimated monthly visits
3.4K
Traffic estimate as of Oct 2025
Kilobaser filed for insolvency after a failed financing round and weak U.S. expansion; the article reported 19 employees and about 30 creditors.
SourceBiogenes Technologies financed a rescue of Kilobaser assets out of bankruptcy, leading to a new company structure (MABEAL GmbH) and continuation of the product line.
SourceKilobaser LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Kilobaser says it is part of the newly fielded FFBS program, positioning its synthesizer as a field tool for generating primers and custom assays quickly at the point of need.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory · Jun 2026
Official NRL coverage of the FFBS / F-FAST transition explains how portable sequencing and on-demand assay generation support field operations; it explicitly mentions Kilobaser as the primer synthesizer used after sequencing.
Kilobaser website · May 2026
Kilobaser launched N2Go, a compact nitrogen generator meant to replace gas cylinders and support the One and One-XT platforms at the benchtop or in mobile deployments.
brutkasten · Jan 2024
The article reports that Biogenes Technologies helped finance a restart after insolvency and that the founders formed a new company to acquire the assets from bankruptcy.
TrendingTopics · Jul 2023
Coverage of the insolvency filing says the company’s financing round failed, U.S. expansion underperformed, and the business could not continue without new capital.